Traite de Mecanique Celeste (4 Tomes)

Francois-Felix Tisserand

Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1889-1896

[Celestial Mechanics] 4 volumes. 4to, 28 cm.  First two volumes bound in publisher's brown cloth. Shelf wear.   Last two bound in contemporary, red leather, with original wrappers bound in.  x, 474; xiv, 552; ix, [1], 427; xii, 551 pp. "First edition of the most important 19th-century treatise on the subject to appear after Laplace's Mecanique Celeste." - Swann Galleries - Astronomy & Science Books - Sale 2343 - April 3, 2014.  BEA, page 1141-42; DSB XII, 423. Early signature of A.H.S. Settson (sp?), St. John's College, Cambridge, 1909.  

Contents: T. 1 Perturbations des planetes d'apres la methode de la variation des constantes arbitraires. T. 2 Theorie de la figure des corps celestes et de leur mouvement de rotation. T. 3 Expose de l'ensemble des theories relatives au mouvement de la lune. T. 4 Theories des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne Perturbations des petites planetes.