L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, at Paris. Histoire ... depuis son établissement en 1666 jusqu'à 1686 [1699], Paris: 1733-34-31-29-30-29-30, volumes I-XI in 14, 4°, 202 folding engraved plates and maps; Histoire [for the years 1699-1745, 1747-50], 51 volumes only, 935 engraved plates including frontispieces to some volumes, many plates folding, together 65 volumes (browning to plates and text, and occasional soiling, title perforation and other librarry marks to preliminaries of each vol., some blocks broken), uniform contemporary calf (worn with many spines flaking and covers detached) Provenance: "Ad usum D. Anselmi de Franceschi, Jo: Benedicti Balbi, MM. Cassinens. S. Benigni Genvae" (early printed label) & Berlin Collection; Table Alphabetique [for the years 1666-1770], Paris: 1734-29-78-58-74], volumes I-VIII, 4° (browning, library markings), non-uniform contemporary calf and modern blue buckram (generally worn); Mémoires de l'Institut National des Sciences et Arts pour l'an IV de la République, Paris: Baudouin, an VI [1797-98], volume I, 4°, 14 engraved plates, folding engraved map, folding letterpress table (several plates slightly dampstained, others spotted, title perforation and other John Crerar library markings, including stamps to plate versos), contemporary boards (rebacked in buckram). (74)