Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMON, Marquis de. Traité de Mécanique Céleste. Folding engraved plate in Volume 4 (bound upside down). [iii]-xxxii, 368; [2] (of [4]), 382; [iii]-xxiv, 303, [1], 24; [iii]-xl, 347, [1], [2], 65, [1], 78, [2]; [iii]-viii, 419, [1], [2], 35 pages; lacking the half-titles, and all but the last of the part titles in Volume 5. 4to, 248x208 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 calf gilt with University of Glasgow arms on front covers, slight wear to spine ends, joints rubbed; occasional toning, light dampstain in outer margin of Volume 1 opening leaves, heavy foxing at beginning and end of last volume, scattered minor foxing elsewhere. Paris, An VII-VII-XI-XIII [1799-1799-1803-1805], 1825[-27]

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first edition; complete with the supplements. "Laplace's masterpiece, the Mécanique Céleste presents a detailed application of the Newtonian law of gravitation to the entire solar system"--Bibliotheca Mechanica, pages 197-98. BEA, pages 678-79; DSB XV, 273-403; Grolier/Horblit 63; Norman 1277; Printing and the Mind of Man 252.