Book ID: 18283 Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Geographia Generalis, In qua Affectiones Generales Telluris Explicantur . . . Editio Secunda Auctior & Emendatior. ISAAC NEWTON.
Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Geographia Generalis, In qua Affectiones Generales Telluris Explicantur . . . Editio Secunda Auctior & Emendatior.
Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Geographia Generalis, In qua Affectiones Generales Telluris Explicantur . . . Editio Secunda Auctior & Emendatior.

Isaac Newton's First Published Work

Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Geographia Generalis, In qua Affectiones Generales Telluris Explicantur . . . Editio Secunda Auctior & Emendatior.

Place and Imprint: Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681.
Edition: Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes.
Bibliographical References: ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029.
Condition: Edges and hinges repaired; prelims a little foxed; a very good copy.
Book ID: 18283

Physical Description

8vo, contemporary panelled calf rebacked, raised bands. Five folding plates. Title-page printed in red and black.

Comments

The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in 1650. It became the standard textbook on the subject for a century. Isaac Newton edited and revised this edition for his students at Cambridge; it was Newton's first published work. Small bookplate of Johann Lawrence on the front paste-down.

Price: $1,750.00

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