Traite de Mecanique Celeste. Paris: Crapelet for J.B.M. Duprat, F.T. de la Garde (Volumes 1-2, 1798); Paris: Crapelet for J.B.M. Duprat, (Vol. 3, 1802; Paris: Courcier, 1805 (Vol. 4, 1805); Paris: Bachelier, (Vol. 5, 1823 – 1827) [FIVE VOLUME BOUND AS FOUR; MONUMENTAL ASTRONOMICAL WORK]
Paris: 1798. FIVE VOLUME FIRST EDITION SETOF LAPLACE'S FUNDAMENTAL WORK ON CELESTIAL MECHANICS & IN WHICH HE DEPICTS THE UNIVERSE AS A “GREAT SELF-REGULATING MACHINE” (Printing & the Mind of Man 252). First edition of one of the most important scientific works since Newton's "Principia.” Five volumes bound as four..... More