ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. Histoire ... depuis son établissement en 1666 jusqu'à 1686 [1699], Paris: Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptitste Coignard & Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1733-34, 11 volumes, lacking the 12th volume [table], 4° (247 x 192mm.), FIRST EDITION, 202 engraved plates, some folding, some double-page, 2 engraved folding maps (stamp to each title, tear to title of vol. IV repaired, some gatherings and plates slightly browned, occasional light spotting, occasional annotations), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with lettering-pieces (paper labels to tail of spines, some spines slightly frayed at head, lower front joint of vol. I cracked but cords firmly holding). (11)

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ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. Histoire ... depuis son établissement en 1666 jusqu'à 1686 [1699], Paris: Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptitste Coignard & Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1733-34, 11 volumes, lacking the 12th volume [table], 4° (247 x 192mm.), FIRST EDITION, 202 engraved plates, some folding, some double-page, 2 engraved folding maps (stamp to each title, tear to title of vol. IV repaired, some gatherings and plates slightly browned, occasional light spotting, occasional annotations), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with lettering-pieces (paper labels to tail of spines, some spines slightly frayed at head, lower front joint of vol. I cracked but cords firmly holding). (11)

Provenance

Rouchfoucauld-Liancourt, library stamps and annotations by P. Gaudran, le jeune, Rouchfoucauld's librarian.

Lot Essay

AN ATTRACTIVE SET. Before the "renouvellement" of the Académie Royale in 1699 only a few memoirs had been printed and these volumes contain the first publication of numerous papers by Bovelli, the Cassinis, Huygens, Vangnon and others.

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