Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

217 c MUHAMMAD IBN MUSA AL-KHWARIZMI. The Algebra of Mohammed ben Musa. Arabic text with English translation by Friedrich August Rosen. xvi, 208; [4], 122, [2] pages, including Arabic and English half-titles, and Arabic errata leaf. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 217x140 mm, contemporary ½ vellum gilt with white ink shelf number on spine; contents clean apart from institutional markings. Embossed stamp of the library of Grove City College on title, accession number on next leaf, bookplate and deaccession stamp on front pastedown, and date due slip and card pocket on rear endpapers. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund and sold by J. Murray et al., 1831 [300/500] first edition in the original arabic and first edition in english of the first book on algebra, written in the early 9th century by one of the preeminent Muslim mathematicians of the Middle Ages. DSB VII, 364; Sarton I, 563. 218 c PEMBERTON, HENRY. A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy. 12 folding engraved plates; 12 engraved vignettes by John Pine after J. Grison; 5 engraved decorative initials. [50], 407 pages. 4to, 282x218 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, extremities rubbed, front joint cracked, cords intact; internally crisp and clean. Bookplates of John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, one of the original subscribers, and Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie’s, 17 April 2007, lot 406). wide - margined copy . London: S. Palmer, 1728 [500/750] first edition . Pemberton was a friend of Newton and editor of the 1726 edition of the Principia. Babson 98; DSB X, 500-01; Wallis 132. 219 c PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. Historiae mundi libri XXXVII. [112], 409, [239]; 526, [188]; 412, [132]; 466, [162] pages. 4 volumes. 16mo, 120x77 mm, old vellum boards, spines darkened, covers slightly warped, small piece missing from top spine compartment on Volume 1; contents toned. Lyon: (Symphorien Barbier for) heirs of Jacobus Giunta, 1561 [400/600] 217 218