Maclaurin Colin (1698-1746) An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries . London: for the Author's Children by Millar, Nourse, et al., 1748. First edition, large quarto, with six large folding diagrams (V misbound between II and III), contemporary boards, disbound, leather lacking substantially from both boards and spine head, contents good, in need of resewing; a few lines from Isaac Watts inside the back board, large paper copy [?] 11 1/2 x 9 in. Maclaurin's work is a popularization of Newton's Principia .