first edition
1728 · London
by Pemberton, Henry
London: printed by Samuel S. Palmer, 1728. First edition, 4to, pp. [50], 407, [1]; engraved vignette title page by Pine after Grison, handsome engraved headpieces, tailpieces and historiated initials, and the arms of Sir Robert Walpole on the dedication page, also by Pine after Grison, plus 12 folding engraved plates; a very good, sound copy in full contemporary calf neatly rebacked to style, black leather label in gilt on spine. Ownership signature of John Llewellyn, 1807 on title page "Dr. Pemberton studied under Boerhaave, prepared the Fifth London Pharmacopoeia and was invited by Newton to edit the third (1726) edition of the Principia. This study (truncated)