Lot 229: LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749-1827). Oeuvres . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1843-1847. 7 vols., 4° (268 x 213mm). Folding lithographic plate at end of vol.IV, with half-titles. (Plate slightly stained at corner.) Contemporary calf-backed

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749-1827). Oeuvres. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1843-1847. 7 vols., 4° (268 x 213mm). Folding lithographic plate at end of vol.IV, with half-titles. (Plate slightly stained at corner.) Contemporary calf-backed mottled boards, spines gilt, marbled endpapers and edges (light rubbing to board edges).

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published at the instigation of Laplace's widow and subsidised by the state. The works of Laplace reprinted here are the cornerstones of modern science, the Exposition du système du monde (1796), the Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-1825), and Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812). Brunet III, 834.