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176359007Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. 8188504 pp. 13 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de la Caille Bertin le Cardinal de Luynes le Monnier Maraldi l'Abbé de la Caille de la Lande Pingré de Fouchy Tenon Malouin Guettard Adanson l'Abbé Nollet du Hamel & Tillet l'Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche Cassini de Thury de Ratte. </em> hardcover
176359033Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. 8188504 pp. 13 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de la Caille Bertin le Cardinal de Luynes le Monnier Maraldi l'Abbé de la Caille de la Lande Pingré de Fouchy Tenon Malouin Guettard Adanson l'Abbé Nollet du Hamel & Tillet l'Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche Cassini de Thury de Ratte. </em> hardcover
176359034Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. 8136519 pp. 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: le Chevalier d'Arcy Lauraguais de la Lande le Gentil Bezout Maraldi Guettard Maquer De l'Isle du Hamel l'Abbé de la Caille Vaucanson Hérissant Pingré Tenon Romieu. </em> hardcover
171758990Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1717. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. 8134442 pp. 17 partly folded engraved plates 1 table. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de la Hire Rolle Maraldi Cassini Reaumur de Louville Varignon Geoffroy le jeune Rouhault Saulmon Delisle Homberg Littre Bernoulli Reneaume Delisle le cadet Lemery Malezieu de Jussieu Lemery le cadet de Lagny Nissole. </em> hardcover
173959027Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1739. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to spineends. Minor scratches to upper cover. Engraved frontispiece. 8120507 pp. 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: Clairaut Hellot Maraldi du Hamel Cassini de Thury du Fay Petit de Mairan Grosse Pitot Cassini du Hamel le Monnier Lémery Maupertuis Sur la Figure de la Terre de Fouchy Morand Reaumur Geoffroy Bouguer. </em> hardcover
173959001Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1739. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to spineends. Minor scratches to upper cover. Engraved frontispiece. 8120507 pp. 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: Clairaut Hellot Maraldi du Hamel Cassini de Thury du Fay Petit de Mairan Grosse Pitot Cassini du Hamel le Monnier Lémery Maupertuis Sur la Figure de la Terre de Fouchy Morand Reaumur Geoffroy Bouguer. </em> hardcover
1767LA - HAY008011767 1ère édition. Pas de mention d'édition . relié pleine basane de ce temps là. Reliure restaurée aux coiffes ; pièce de titre absente sur le dos ainsi que la gravure dépliante annoncée à la page 328 mais apparemment oubliée par le relieur ; plats souffrant d'épidermures travail de vers 2 trous traversant toutes les pages et deux signatures à l'encre sinon intérieur très frais. in-12. dos à nerfs avec caissons ornés de fleurons toutes tranches rouges. unknown
176014266Amsterdam 1760. Boards. Good. Four volumes in uniform period leather bindings. 12mo 6 1/2 x 4 inches. Spines with gilt decorations raised bands and leather labels. Clean internally. Bindings are worn but fundamentally sound.<br /> <br /> Tome Premier: III-XVI 727 pages. Tome Second: 2 743 pages. Tome Troisieme: 2 648 pages. These three volumes comprise a set and contain the indices of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris for the years 1699-1734 inclusive. Headband of Tome Second torn. Marbled pastedown endpapers with plain flyleaves. Published in 1741 by Chez Pierre Mortier. These three volumes contain a general table of the matters contained in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from 1699 to 1734 inclusive.<br /> <br /> Tome Quatrieme: 8 404 XXXVI 372 2 III-VIII 256 pages. This volume has a paper label with manuscript notations at the head of the spine. Marbled endpapers. Published in 1760 by Chez J. Schreuder Et Chez Pierre Mortier le Jeune. The first section 8 404 pages is a general table of the matters contained in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from 1735-1751 inclusive. BOUND WITH XXXVI 372 pages the "Histoire de L'Academie Royale Des Sciences Centie'me ou Dernier Volume De La Premiere Centurie. Contenant un Abregd Historique de chaque Sceince. Avec une liste generale des Memoires de Mathematique & de Physique jusqu'a l'annee 1751. inclusivement." History of the Royal Academy of Sciences Hundredth or Last Volume of the First Century. Containing an Historical Summary of each Science. With a general list of Memoirs of Mathematics & Physics up to the year 1751 inclusive. BOUND WITH III-VII 256 pages "Memoires de L'academie Royale Des Sciences. Jusqu'a L'Année MDCCLI. Inclusivement. Contenus dans la premiere Centurie des Volumes de l'Edition de Hollande." Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Up to the Year MDCCLI. Inclusively. Contained in the First Century of Volumes of the Holland Edition. This last section has no title page. Boards. unknown
175759009Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1757. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. 8320628 pp. 25 partly folded engraved plates. Textleaves clean and fine. Some plates with a faint dampstain. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: Lietaud le Gentil Malouin Cassini de thury Guettard le Francois de la Lande de Lasône le Monnier le Fils Guettard Boguer Bourdelin de l'isle Baron Hérissant Geoffroy le Fils de Thury Bertin Reaumur Pingré l'Abbé Nollet le Roy Maraldi Morand du Hamel Buache de Fouchy Montet. </em> hardcover
173559003Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1735. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. 8136512 pp. 24 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: Bouguer Maupertuis Geoffroy Godin du Hamel Maraldi Couplet du Fay D'Onzembray Cassini Petit Bernoulli Maloet Nicole Clairaut de la Condamine du Hamel & Grosse Pitot Buache Grandjean Morand Camus Godin. </em> hardcover
176759134Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1767. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. 10212415 pp. 15 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original memoirs by: Clairaut Sur quelques Principes qui donnent la Solution d'un grans nombre de Problèmes de Dynamique. pp. 1-52 Geoffroy Cassini Malouin Winslow Maraldi de Jussieu l'Abbé de la Caille Bourdelin Cassini de Thury l'Abbé Nollet Buffon Petit du Hamel Maraldi de Mairan Monnier le fils Buache Sauvages de la Croix. </em> hardcover
176159023Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1761. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. 10175602 pp. 20 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de Mairan Buache Pingré Maquer le Gentil l'Abbé de la Caille Le Roy Bouguer Maraldi Cassini de Thury de la Sône le Duc de Chaulnes de l'Isle Guettard de Lalande Pingré Marquis de Courtivron l'Abbé Nollet Bourdelin le Gentil Marquis de Montalembert de Fouchy le Monnier du Hamel. </em> hardcover
176158997Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1761. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. 10175602 pp. 20 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de Mairan Buache Pingré Maquer le Gentil l'Abbé de la Caille Le Roy Bouguer Maraldi Cassini de Thury de la Sône le Duc de Chaulnes de l'Isle Guettard de Lalande Pingré Marquis de Courtivron l'Abbé Nollet Bourdelin le Gentil Marquis de Montalembert de Fouchy le Monnier du Hamel. </em> hardcover
173559029Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1735. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. 8136512 pp. 24 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: Bouguer Maupertuis Geoffroy Godin du Hamel Maraldi Couplet du Fay D'Onzembray Cassini Petit Bernoulli Maloet Nicole Clairaut de la Condamine du Hamel & Grosse Pitot Buache Grandjean Morand Camus Godin. </em> hardcover
175759035Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1757. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. 8320628 pp. 25 partly folded engraved plates. Textleaves clean and fine. Some plates with a faint dampstain. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: Lietaud le Gentil Malouin Cassini de thury Guettard le Francois de la Lande de Lasône le Monnier le Fils Guettard Boguer Bourdelin de l'isle Baron Hérissant Geoffroy le Fils de Thury Bertin Reaumur Pingré l'Abbé Nollet le Roy Maraldi Morand du Hamel Buache de Fouchy Montet. </em> hardcover
1795ZB1254671Academie des Sciences Paris 1795. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 10 volumes bound in modern green buckram minor library markings else very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Academie des Sciences, Paris hardcover
171859024Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1718. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. Engraved frontispiece. 6114274 pp. 10 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de la Hire Maraldi Lemery de Cadet Cassini Nicole Saulmon Delisle le Cadet Chevalier de Louville Rouhaut Saulmon Malezieu Maraldi & Cassini Petit Malezieu Reaumur Varignon Winslow FIRST EDITION of the paper describing "forarmen Winslowii": Nouvelles Observations anatomiques sur la Situation et la Conformation des plusieurs Visceres. pp. 226-235 Geoffroy le Cadet Senés. </em> hardcover
171858998Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1718. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. Engraved frontispiece. 6114274 pp. 10 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original papers by: de la Hire Maraldi Lemery de Cadet Cassini Nicole Saulmon Delisle le Cadet Chevalier de Louville Rouhaut Saulmon Malezieu Maraldi & Cassini Petit Malezieu Reaumur Varignon Winslow FIRST EDITION of the paper describing "forarmen Winslowii": Nouvelles Observations anatomiques sur la Situation et la Conformation des plusieurs Visceres. pp. 226-235 Geoffroy le Cadet Senés. </em> hardcover
176759133Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1767. 4to. Contemp. hvellum. Handwritten titlwe on spine. 8206579 pp. 15 partly folded engraved plates 1 table. Internally clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>With original memoirs by: Buache le Monnier Haller d'Alembert Nouvelle Recherches sur les Verres optiques. pp. 75-146 de Séjour Tillet Morand le fils Fougeroux de Bondaroy Pingré Bailly le Cardinal du Luynes & Bailly Bezout Recherches sur le degré des Équations résultantes de l'évanouissement des inconnues & sur les moyens qu'il convient d'employer pour trouver ces Équations now called the Bezoutiant Cassini de Thury Chappe d'Auteroche Tenon l'Abbe Nollet Memoire sur les effets du Tonnerre comparés à ceux de l'Électricité. pp. 408-453 Deparcieux le Monnier Guettard Troisieme Memoir sur la Mineralogie des environs de Paris & de Corps marins qui s'y trouvent. Pp. 492-526 du Hamel de la Lande Daubenton Montet. </em> hardcover
176726614<p><strong>1767 ARTS & Science BAKING Breads Cooking Recipes Illustrated Farming Millers</strong></p><p>An exceedingly rare and desirable 18th-century arts and sciences study by the Acadmie Royale des Sciences. This enormous tome focuses primarily on sciences relating to baking and food preparation – planting crops and farming irrigation details on millers and milling vermicelli and noodle making baking and cooking. Also includes milling wig-making hat-making and growing/processing indigo. It includes recipes and techniques for making soups baking breads and so much more!</p><p>Item number: #26614</p><p>Price: $795</p><p>Academie Royale des Sciences</p><p><strong><em>Description des arts et meÌtiers</em></strong></p><p>Paris: 1767. 1st edition</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages; </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Meunier – iv 340</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Perruquier – vi 44</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Faire des Chapeaux – 2 94</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->L'Indigotier – 2 118</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->32 engraved plates</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: French</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif--><strong>Size: </strong><strong>~17.25in X 11.75in 44cm x 30cm</strong></p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>26614</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> hardcover
17231507160013Amsterdam : Pierre de Coup 1723-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 2 Volumes. 1692: 10 458 3 pp 13 plates 12 folding & 1 frontis. For 1693: 4 497 1 pp 11 plates 10 folding & 1 frontis. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Gilt spine. 5 raised bands. Page ends washed red. Marbled page ends. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Joints cracked to 1692 volume. Library stamps from University of Georgia. Black staining to 3rd 5th and 6th compartments. Chipping loss to head and tail of spines. Small loss to page ends. Unmarked pages with toning. <br><br> The 1692 volume contains Cassini's remarks on the upcoming eclipse on the 28th of July 1692 that includes a smaller engraving of Cassini's Map of the Moon with 40 numbers and 8 letters of marks that were not engraving on the 1679 map to signifying the features of the moon. This version map would be the one that would be reprinted for over a century in textbooks dictionaries and encyclopedias. Both volumes contain various works by Cassini and de Le HIre. Folding maps are Carte d'une Partie de L'Inde en Deca du Gange; Cours de la Riviere D'Ava Amsterdam : Pierre de Coup hardcover
17341507160043Amsterdam : Pierre Mortier 1734-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Gilt spine. 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Page ends washed red. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Black staining to 3rd 5th compartments. Chipping and loss to head and 6th compartment of spine. Library stamps from the University of Georgia. Unmarked pages with some toning and foxing spots. Ships daily. <br> This volume contains De la Resistance cause'e dans les Machines tant par les frottemens des parties qui les composent que par la roideur des Cordes qu'on y employe & la maniere de calculer l'un & l'autre which published Amontons rediscovery of the laws of friction tribology first put forward by Leonardo da Vinci. Though they were received with some scepticism the laws were verified by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb in 1781. DSB I p. 138. Also contains Moyen de substituer Commodement L'Action du Feu a la Force des Hommes et des Chevaux pour mouvoir les Machines also by Amontons with the engraving of Moulin a Feu which is the first appearance of the thermic motor hot air engine historically called an air engine or caloric engine. "As early as 1699 Amontons proposed a thermic motor: a machine using hot air and external combustion with direct rotation. The experiments carried on in connection with this machine led him to note that ordinary air going from the temperature of ice to that of boiling water increases in volume by about one third."DSB I p. 139 Amsterdam : Pierre Mortier hardcover
1742SS13441London:: Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . 1742-53. 1742. 5 volumes. 8vo. Vol.1: 4 x 11-456 16; Vol.2: 2 407 15 10; Vol.3: 2 422 16; Vol.4: 2 410 14 11-26; Vol.5: 2 426 14 pp. The first 10 pages of the "Addenda" are bound at the end of vol.2 pp.11-26 are bound at the end of vol.4. 44 of 45 engraved plates mostly folding I: 17; II: 6; III: 6; IV: 6; V: 9 of 10 plates pl. 10 supplied in facs. see p. 422 TOTAL: 44 2 folding tables vol. I tables some folding addenda indexes; 2nd wasp plate vol. V with small scrape effecting some of the image. Original speckled calf; rebacked and with later endleaves vols. I III & V with joints gently mended with kozo. PROVENANCE: Bookplates of Henry and Carol Faul mounted on top of the following engraved bookplate for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: "Sub libertate Florent" dated 1780 "The Gift of . . ." -- also with their gilt-stamp applied to the foot of the later spines "American Academy"; Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. Very good. HENRY FAUL'S COPY -- WORKED FOR ENRICO FERMI & BIKINI ATOLL TEST. A collection of early scientific papers from leading figures all belonging to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris the French equivalent to the Royal Society of London. The abridged papers all appeared between 1699 and 1720 and include diverse topics such as anatomy apiculture astronomy incl. Moon chemistry electricity entomology gases geography geology herpetology invertebrates magnetism medicine meteorology mineralogy monsters music mollusks natural history optics physics scientific instruments including the barometer microscope zoology and more. / AMONG THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS OR NOTABLES MENTIONED: Agricola Amontons Baert Juan de Barros Bernoulli Bignon Borelli Bouvet Robert Boyle Carre Cassini Chazelles Chevalier Coronelli Dampier Descartes Dodart Fermat Fontenay Fontenelle Galileo Gandolphe Gassendi Gesner Gouye Halley Van Helmont de la Hire du Hamel Huygens Jeaugeon Kepler Kircher Leibnitz Lemery Leuwenhoek Malpighi de Marca Mariotte Mollard Gregory Nazianzen Isaac Newton de Nointel Ortelius Parent Picard Renau Riccioli Sanctorius Strabo Tournefort Varignon etc. PROVENANCE: 1 American Academy of Arts & Sciences bookplate: The Academy seal features Minerva the goddess of wisdom science and trade and the arts. Her temple on the Aventine Hill was a meeting place for skilled craftsman writers and actors. She is also depicted as a warrior a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution. Around Minerva are representations of the new country—on her right a field of Indian corn a stand of oaks and the outline of a town; at her feet a hoe a plow and a sickle; on her left a quadrant and a telescope a ship heading for shore and the sun completely risen above the cloud. Over the whole is the motto SUB LIBERTATE FLORENT which suggests that arts and sciences flourish best in. -- 2 Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. -- 3 Henry and Carol Faul. Henry Faul was a geologist working on Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago. He was responsible for prospecting uranium ore in Colorado and Utah. He also travelled to Manhattan Project sites at Los Alamos and in Washington DC. Following the war Faul continued to work on nuclear projects and participated in the Bikini Atoll test. He received his M.S. from the University of Chicago during the war and went on to get his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ESTC T131275. Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . , 1742-53. unknown
174851397Breslau Johann Jacob Korn 1748-51. Large 8vo. Uncut in mounted orig. marbled wrappers all 6 volumes later clotbacked. Wear to wrappers. Stamps on titlepages. Ca. 5000 pp. each vol. separately paginated. Textillustrations and 104 engraved plates some folding.Title-pages browned and brownspotted. Some browning and brownspots throughout. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first German translation of the pysical memoirs from the "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences" containing many importent papers by the leading French scientists: Amontons Cassini Bernoulli Homberg Lemery la Hire Reaumur Tournefort Maraldi Delisle etc. etc.Of special importence are GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ: "Erklärung der Arithmetica binaria die sich nur der Charakteren 0 und I bedienet nebst Anmerkungen von ihrem Nutzen und dem verstande den sie den alten chinesischen Figuren des Fohi giebt." pp. 88-93 Bd. II. Leibniz' BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM first published 1703. And JACOB JACQUES CASSINI "Abhandlung von der Grösse und Figur der Erde" pp. 431-756 and 14 engraved plates and maps.Poggendorff II 1000 </em> unknown
1734D4425Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1734. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes comprising Vol. III parts I to III of Memoires de lAcadémie Royale des Sciences depuis 1666 jusquà 1699. Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1733-1734. Part I: 231pp.; Part II: 294pp.; Part III: 215pp. 97 engraved folding plates depicting animals and skeletal diagrams. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Claude Perrault in first volume. Contemporary French calf spines gilt edges red; some occasional browning; repairs to joints some rubbing. Unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown beneath monogrammed bookplate D.P. with chipmunk and two mice. A later reduced format edition of Perraults Memoires of 1671-1676 Perraults study of this nature was first published in 1669 with the results of investigations of five animals and later expanded with studies of over forty animals. Prior to 1670 most descriptions of animals paid little attention to their internal structure and there were very few images in natural history encyclopedias that depicted skeletons or muscles. That changed with the establishment of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the approval of King Louis XIV. The Academy functioned with neither statutes nor regulations until 1699. At that time the Academy used the term mathématique to encompass the fields that are now called astronomy mathematics and physics and the term physique to encompass the fields that are now called anatomy botany zoology and chemistry. In January 1699 Louis reorganized the Academy giving it first regulations. The effect was to give the King more control over their activities in exchange for becoming an official institution under his protection with the new name Académie Royale des Sciences. One of the original academicians the physician Claude Perrault organized regular sessions at which participants could dissect deceased animals from Louis XIVs royal menagerie and record all they observed. Lions chameleons bears gazelles wolves ostriches crocodiles monkeys eagles tigers porcupines and salamanders among some were all laid open by the academics scalpels. These superb folding plates record in great detail the pioneering work at the Academy. These three volumes in three parts focus on the transformative and foundational years of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and Claude Perraults efforts which had made comparative anatomy a vital tool for the classifying naturalist. <br/><br/> Par La Compagnie des Libraires hardcover