Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMON, Marquis de. Exposition du Système du Monde.<> [iii]-viii, 351 pages; lacks half-title. 4to, contemporary 1/2 russia, rebacked, corners restored, endpapers conspicuously renewed; negligible foxing at beginning and end, few marginalia. Paris: J.-B.-M. Duprat, An VII [1799]

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Second edition of a general treatise on astronomy first published in 1796, "one of the most successful popularizations of science ever composed" (DSB), elaborating Laplace's "nebular hypothesis" of the origin and formation of the solar system. DSB XV, 342-45.<