LE JOURNAL DES SÇAVANS...Par le Sieur de Hedouville. Volumes I-II (5 January-30 March 1665 [complete]; and 4 January-20 December 1666). Paris, 1665-66. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to, contemporary vellum; second volume with pages 71-74 misbound after page 82, and lacking pages 95-98 and 419-31. Engraved folding plate and other text illustrations.

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LE JOURNAL DES SÇAVANS...Par le Sieur de Hedouville. Volumes I-II (5 January-30 March 1665 [complete]; and 4 January-20 December 1666). Paris, 1665-66. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to, contemporary vellum; second volume with pages 71-74 misbound after page 82, and lacking pages 95-98 and 419-31. Engraved folding plate and other text illustrations.

The second volume contains a review of Hooke's Micrographia (with folding plate) on pages 491-97. "Founded and edited by 'Sieur de Hédouville', pseudonym of Denis de Sallo (1626-1669), the Journal des Sçavans was 'the earliest scientific journal, ancestor of all its kind'."--Grolier/Horblit 95a.
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