[Newton & Voltaire] Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton, Mis à Portée de Tout le Monde

Par Mr. de Voltaire. Amsterdam, J. Desbordes, 1738, 399,(1) p., with engraved frontispiece by J. Folkema (with Voltaire writing at a table and Newton with celestial globe) and 6 plates, 58 engraved ills. and 3 woodcut illus., engraved title vignette and 49 other vignettes, folding, engraved table, contemporary marbled boards.

Lacks the portrait of Voltaire. Occ. waterstained/foxed/soiled. Spine and outer corners of boards rubbed. Bengesco 1570; Poggendorf II, 1233. Cf. PMM 161 and David M. Knight, Natural Science Books in English 1600-1900, chapter 4: The Reception of Newtonian Physics, p. 79 (English edition 1738). The first edition (issued simultaneously by various publishers) of this popular treatise on the new Newtonian scientific views by Voltaire (1694-1778).