The System of the World

by Pierre-Simon Laplace

$3,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

London: Richard Phillips, 1809. First Edition. First edition in English. 2 vols., large 12mo 218 x 130mm , pp. 4 , viii, 379, 1 ; 4 , iii, 1 , 380. Original paper-backed boards, with half-titles and all the ads present in both volumes. Pages uncut, with some toning to the page edges and light rubbing to the extremities, else fine, with no repairs. A notably well-preserved copy, fresh and unrestored. Translated from the

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