ASTRONOMY] LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON DE. The System of the World . London: Richard Phillips 1809. First edition in English. Two volumes, modern green morocco backed boards. 7 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (19.5 x 11.5 cm); half-titles, ads. Some offset to prelims, faint old dampstian to rear of volume 1, intermittent ink marginalia. The first English edition of Laplace's important work on astronomy. C
ASTRONOMY] LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON DE. The System of the World . London: Richard Phillips 1809. First edition in English. Two volumes, modern green morocco backed boards. 7 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (19.5 x 11.5 cm); half-titles, ads. Some offset to prelims, faint old dampstian to rear of volume 1, intermittent ink marginalia. The first English edition of Laplace's important work on astronomy. C
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