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MAINDRON, Ernest (1838-1908). L'Acadmie des Sciences. Histoire de l'Acadmie - Fondation de l'Institut National - Bonaparte Membre de l'Institut National. Paris: Baillire, 1888.
8o (240 x 154 mm). Half-title, text illustrations, 10 plates (4 folding, 1 hand-colored). Contemporary speckled paper boards, new morocco spine and label (old clippings regarding the Institut neatly pasted to endleaves, very slight rubbing to boards).
FIRST EDITION. Norman 1424. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 16 Autograph letters signed from various early nineteenth-century members of the Academy including Baume, Bertrand (2), Desnoyer, and others; a printed ticket to the 100th "Sance publique des cinq Acadmies," held in 1895; a large, folding 4-page register headed "Etat de Distribution," arranged in columns, listing payments to members who attended the November 1825 convocation of the Academie, and signed by 66 Academicians, who include: Ampre, Arago, Biot, Cauchy, Chaptal, Cuvier, Delalande, de Prony, Fresnel, Gay-Lussac, Lamarck, Laplace, Legendre, Pinel, Silvestre, St. Hilaire, and others. Provenance: Ed. Bonnet, book-label.
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FIRST EDITION. Norman 1424. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 16 Autograph letters signed from various early nineteenth-century members of the Academy including Baume, Bertrand (2), Desnoyer, and others; a printed ticket to the 100th "Sance publique des cinq Acadmies," held in 1895; a large, folding 4-page register headed "Etat de Distribution," arranged in columns, listing payments to members who attended the November 1825 convocation of the Academie, and signed by 66 Academicians, who include: Ampre, Arago, Biot, Cauchy, Chaptal, Cuvier, Delalande, de Prony, Fresnel, Gay-Lussac, Lamarck, Laplace, Legendre, Pinel, Silvestre, St. Hilaire, and others. Provenance: Ed. Bonnet, book-label.