Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, par divers sçavans, & lûs dans ses assemblées.

Description: 5 (of 11) vol., 4to: [8]-xix-[1 bl.]-592, [8]-xx-624, [6]-xxii-654, [8]-xxiii-[1 bl.]-655, [8]-xxxi-[1]-678 pp.; 109 pl. (occ. marg. soiling, marg. damp stains in the 3 first vol., foxing, tear with lack to title of vol. II). - 5 first vol., illustrated with 109 plates, mostly fold. With memoirs on astronomy (eclipses...), medicine, natural history, mathematics, hippology, meteorology... by Fr.-C. Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Gabriel Jars, Jean-Joseph Rallier des Ourmes, Philippe-Étienne La Fosse etc. - Prov. Stockholm University library (stamps, incl. one "Discared").
Circa: 1750-1768

Condition: 19th-c. three-quarter marbled sheep, spr. papers on covers, spines with raised bands gilt ruled (sl. rubbed, def. to most heads). Untrimmed copy.