Laplace (Pierre-Simon- marquis de ): Mécanique Céleste, translated with a commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch, Boston, Isaac R. Butts, 1829-39, 4 vols., 4to, first edition in English, with half-titles, engraved portraits of Laplace, Bowditch and his wife (title to vol. I torn at outer margin and slightly soiled), contemporary half calf (worn). [Sotheran I, 2444-5: 'This is the only English translation of Laplace's chef-d'oeuvre , and is now very rare, very few of the 250 copies printed ever happening for sale; it is moreover noteworthy as the first great scientific work issued in the United States'; Honeyman 1925] (4)
Laplace (Pierre-Simon- marquis de ): Mécanique Céleste, translated with a commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch, Boston, Isaac R. Butts, 1829-39, 4 vols., 4to, first edition in English, with half-titles, engraved portraits of Laplace, Bowditch and his wife (title to vol. I torn at outer margin and slightly soiled), contemporary half calf (worn). [Sotheran I, 2444-5: 'This is the only English translation of Laplace's chef-d'oeuvre , and is now very rare, very few of the 250 copies printed ever happening for sale; it is moreover noteworthy as the first great scientific work issued in the United States'; Honeyman 1925] (4)
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