Exposition du systême du monde

New edition with hitherto unpublished material, printed three years after the first edition.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 "Marseille" on front cover, corners bumped, gilt tooling on board edges and spine-ends slightly faded, hole to half-title leaf not affecting text, and leaves throughout cockled.
Ink annotation on title page: "1ère Edition 1796".

Four further editions will follow the first two: 1808, 1813, 1824, and 1835 (the latter published posthumously).

Laplace's classic work is here enhanced by an interesting school prize label dated Fructidor, 1, Year XIII (August, 19, 1805), with the letterhead of the "Lycée impérial de Marseille", founded in 1802 and renamed "Lycée Thiers" in 1930. The autograph signature of the headmaster "Reboul", confirming the award of the prize to the pupil "Mangin" of the astronomy class, belongs to the hand of mathematician, physicist, astronomer and former Benedictine Antoine-Joseph Reboul. Appointed headmaster in 1804, Reboul will publish in 1811 the Tables Nouvelles de Vénus, d'après la théorie de M. de La Place, et d'après les éléments de M. de Lindenau. 

A fascinating label associating under the First Empire the two scientists Pierre-Simon de Laplace and Antoine-Joseph Reboul, six years before the latter published his calculations based, among other sources, on Laplace's research.