A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION ON THE MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. A much condensed version for the general public of Somerville's massive translation of Laplace's five volume work Traité de Mécanique Ccéleste (Celestial Mechanics 1798-1827), published a year earlier. Small 8vo, original brown linen cloth with paper label front cover, 134 (2). A partially missing, paper numbered library label is on the spine which corresponds to the entry on the bookplate on the front pastedown for the Bangor Theological Seminary Library. Not uncommon in special collections, but uncommon in the marketplace.