LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis. Oeuvres de Lagrange publiées par les soins de M. J.-A. Serret. 1867-1892.

The first seven volumes, in second edition and printed on vergé paper, are bound in with delicassy with the coat of arms of the Marquis
de Laplace, and were offered to Louis Crussard (1876-1959), a student who graduated top major if the École Polytechnique in 1897. In 1898, he entered the École nationale supérieure des mines in Paris as a student engineer in the Corps des Mines and graduated in 1901. He was the co-founder of the École nationale supérieure des mines in Nancy.

The prize was founded by Madame la Marquise de Laplace, at the expense of the State and by order of Louis-Philippe. It contained these seven volumes.
The following seven volumes, in the original edition, complete the series of Laplace's works.

Laplace, nicknamed the "French Newton", is one of the most brilliant scientific figures of his time. He is behind the most profound advances in astronomy, mathematics, physics and in the probability theory.
The first five volumes are devoted to Celestial Mechanics, the next two to the World System and the Probability Theory. The last seven volumes consist of Laplace's Memoirs at the Académie des Sciences and articles published in scientific journals such as the Journal de l'École Polytechnique.