Par Pierre-Simon LAPLACE, de l’Institut National de France, et du Bureau des Longitudes. A PARIS, De l’Imprimerie du Cercle-Social. L’ an IV de la République Française. [1795-1796].

2 volumes in 8º gr. (de 20x12 cm) com 314, [iv] e 312, [iv] págs. Encadernações da época inteiras de pele marmoreada com finos ferros a ouro no estilo Império, apresentando-se com os cantos e dianteiras das pastas cansados e com trabalhos de traça.

Exemplar sólido e limpo, com margens generosas; e com os cortes das folhas carminados da época.

[EN] First Edition. Extremely rare. A good copy in 2 volumes. 8º with large paper margins.

Bindings: Original full mottled calf, gilt at spine with gilt contemporary style tools. Boards worn and wormed at edges of folders.

Work based on the author's lectures on calculus, mechanics, and astronomy. Contains sections on observable astronomical phenomena, real motion of planets, satellites and comets, a summarization of his work in gravitational mechanics, and a survey of the history of astronomy. This first edition contains Laplace"s celebrated "Nebular Hypothesis" which remained through the 19th century the most widely accepted view on the subject ".