The system of the world

by Pierre-Simon Laplace

$1,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: Richard Phillips, 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. iv , viii, 379; iv , iii, i , 375 pp., including half-titles. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Contemporary half-polished calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges; a wonderful, exceptionally clean copy with the bookplate of A.P. Thompson on each paste-down. Item #19243 First English edition, originally printed in Paris, 1796, here

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