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Ex Libris AKA From library... sometimes wonderful vignette on the back cover of the books.

If I remember, Peter I, the Greatest, bought a library containing this book (Newton's Principia)! Have some details?

The Earliest Copy in Russia of Newton's 'Principia': Is It David Gregory's Annotated Copy?
V. S. Kirsanov
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
Vol. 46, No. 2 (Jul., 1992), pp. 203-218
Published by: The Royal Society
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/531634

A copy was donated in 1943 (tricentenary of Newton birth). I remember a translation from 1934 but I have to dig more.