NEWTON (Isaac). Opuscula mathematica, philosophica et philologica. Lausanne, Geneva : Marc Michel Bousquet et compagnie, 1744. - 3 volumes in-4, 247 x 196 : (4 ff.), XXXVIII, 420 pp. 28 plates, 2 tables ; (1 f.), VI, 423 pp. 32 plates ; VI, 268 pp. (the last one paginated 268 ad 272), pp. (273)-566, (1 f.) 4 plates. Half red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, spotted edges (19th century binding). First collective edition of the works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), published by Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchior Salvemini da Castiglione (1708-1791), under the name of Jean Castillon. He was a professor of mathematics in Utrecht (1751) and later director of the mathematics class at the Berlin Academy. The illustration includes sixty-four folding plates to which are added two folding tables. The titles are each illustrated with an identical vignette representing a portrait of Newton engraved by Claude Duflos after Delamonce. Spines faded, rubbing from use, corners dulled. Staining at the bottom of the spines and in the lower corner of most leaves in the three volumes and in the upper margin of some leaves in the second volume. Several leaves browned. Worm holes in the inner margin of the leaves in volume three. Provenance: signature " Grenier ministre " and stamp S.M. on the titles.