Pierre-Simon de LAPLACE, Antoine-Joseph REBOUL (Ex-dono)
Exposition du systême du monde[The System of the World]
Imprimerie de Crapelet • Chez J. B. M. Duprat, Libraire pour les Mathématiques, quai des Augustins |Paris an VII (1799) |20 x 25.6 cm|Relié
New edition with hitherto unpublished material, printed three years after the first edition.
Contemporary full brown sheepskin binding, smooth spine with 7 gilt compartments decorated with friezes and classical vases, leather lettering piece, inscription "Lycée impérial de Marseille, prix de l'an XIII (1805)" gilt-stamped on upper cover, gilt rolls on board edges, tooled spine-ends, white pastedowns and endpapers, price label with the "Lycée's" header affixed to front pastedown. Usual wear to joints with a small hole, lower spine-end missing and leather loss at foot of spine, wormhole affecting several letters of the word "Marseill
€2,000
