Author: (Collectif)
Title: Choix de discours de rception l'Acadmie Franoise, depuis son etablissement jusqu' sa suppression; suivis de la Table chronologique de tous ses membres, et de ses Statuts et Rglemens; avec une Introduction par L. Boudou.
Description: Paris, Demonville, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1808 2 vols. 8vo (20,5x13,5 cm). Contemporary half calf, spines nicely gilt in compartments, with morocco title-labels (label of 2nd vol. sl. dam.; tear in first hinges of both vols.; corners bumped and dam.). Vol. 1: (v-vi: Title, page vii-x: "Table", p. xi-xliv: "De l'Acadmie Franoise", 484 pp.: "Discours"; Vol. 2: 536 pp. 3-484 "Discours", 485-509: "Tableau chronologique", 510-519: "Liste alphabtique", 520-524: "Lettres patentes du roi Louis XIII, pour la fondation de l'Acadmie, janvier 1635", 524-536: "Statuts et Rglemens". - Paper browned in place, a few serious brown spots; stamp of former owner on titles and his name also written in ink on fly-leaves. - In the first volume pages (i-iv) (2 leaves) are not present: first blank leaf and half-title missing, also in the 2nd volume the same leaves missing (see copy in the KB Den Haag) . Gewicht/Weight: 1300 grs.

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