- COLLECTION ACADEMIQUE, composee des Memoires, Actes ou Journaux des plus celebres Academies & Societes Litteraires de l'Europe. Concernant l'histoire naturelle, la botanique, la physique, la chymie, la medecine, l'anatomie, la mechanique etc.
Paris, 1785. Tome huitieme, partie Francoise. Contenant la suite de l'Histoire & des Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, G. J. Cuchet; Liege, C. Plomteux, 1785. 4to, 255 x 185 mm, 10 x 7¼ inches, 28 engraved plates, some folding, French text, pages viii, 452, bound in full old cat's paw calf, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettered morocco labels, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Binding worn, head and tail of spine chipped, lower hinge cracked at head and tail, upper hinge just starting, covers holding firmly, unevenly faded and slightly marked, corners slightly worn, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, lacking rear free endpaper, large pale damp stain to prelims, persisting but very pale to page 64, a few pages lightly age-browned, contents otherwise clean and bright, a little pale damp staining to plates XV-XXVIII. Binding tight and firm. A good copy. The work is divided into the following sections: Physique; Botanique; Chymie; Anatomie; Mechanique; plus there are very brief sections headed Histoire Naturelle, Chirurgie, Medecine, and Observations Meteorologiques. Authors of the articles include M. de Buffon, M. de Reaumur, M. de la Condamine, M. Hellot, M. Geoffroy, M. Pitot, M. Grandjean de Fouchy. Images sent on request.
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