MacLaurin (Colin) A Treatise of Fluxions, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title in vol. 1, 41 folding engraved plates, the first cut up and the figs. pasted to the margins of the relevant pp., some spotting and staining, a3 & a3 detaching, large calligraphic ownership entries on verso of titles of James Boone, junior, extensive annotation in his elegant hand to margins of pp. 544-550 in vol. 2, name of Edward Wilson, July 1, 1878 also on title versos, with one or two marginal notes, and a 5-page manuscript 'Table of Contents' tipped-in, long newspaper cuttings pasted to vol. 1 front free endpaper, name stamps of Frederick E. Powell on pastedowns, half-title and vol. 2 fly-leaf, contemporary calf, rubbed and marked, rebacked, corners restored, first few ff. in both vol. tipped-in, 4to, Edinburgh, T.W. & T. Ruddimans, 1742. *** The first textbook on Newtonian calculus. "The earliest logical and systematic publication of the Newtonian methods. It stood as a model of rigor until the appearance of Cauchy's Cours d'Analyse in 1821" (DSB). Provenance. James Boone, Junior (1743-95), member of a prominent Quaker family from Exeter, Pennsylvania, a schoolmaster and mathematician, a keen Newtonian and a friend of Benjamin Franklin.