Lot 934: GREGORY, DAVID.

The Elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical... Done into English, with additions and corrections. To which is annex'd Dr Halley's Synopsis of the astronomy of comets. London: for J. Nicholson... and sold by J. Morphew, 1715

Condition Note: 2 volumes bound in 4, 8vo (200 x 118mm.), [2], xii, [2], 198; [314 (numbered 199-512)]; [2], [228 (numbered 465-691)]; [213 (numbered 693-905)], [5 (index)] pp.; illustration : 79 engraved plates, binding : eighteenth-century English red morocco gilt, panelled sides with fleurons at corners, inner roll-border, spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges, spines slightly faded, occasional light spotting

Houzeau & Lancaster 9240; Wallis 88; Norman 979

first edition in english of a work which was originally published in Latin in 1702 (see lot 933). It also contains the second edition in English of Halley's Synopsis of the astronomy of comets (pp.881-905). A variant exists with the imprint "for John Morphew".