DEUTSCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, Berlin. Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale [for the years 1770-85], Berlin: 1782-87, 16 volumes, 4°, engraved plates, many folding, folding letterpress tables (lacking approximately 11 of 128 plates, one plate severed along fold, some browning and spotting, one volume with corners creased, institutional markings to preliminaries of each vol.), 14 volumes in contemporary pink boards (spines faded and soiled), 2 volumes in later half morocco (rubbed); Mémoires de l'Académie Royale [for the years 1786-1804], Berlin: 1792-1807, 13 volumes, 4°, 78 engraved plates, many folding, folding letterpress tables (some browning and spotting and occasional soiling, institutional markings to preliminaries of each vol., final volume singed at lower margins, and with clean but severe tear to c4), blue library buckram (fore-edges with ink stamp). The lot sold not subject to return. (32)