Académie des Sciences. Mémoires de l'Institut National des Sciences et Arts: Sciences Mathématiques et Physique, 14 volumes, Paris: mixed pubishers, 1798 - 1818, numerous engraved plates (some folding), half-titles, intermittent spotting or toning, volume 11 dated 1811 contains Cuvier (Georges and Brongniart, Alexandre), Essai sur la Geographie Mineralogique des Environs de Paris, two folding engraved plates (lightly offset), one folding engraved hand-coloured map, some hinges cracked, late19th century red/brown quarter morocco gilt, later cloth sidings, upper covers faintly showing oval impression to boards beneath cloth (from earlier leather sides?), rubbed with some marks, gilt dulled, two volumes with a short split to upper joint at head, 3 headcaps slightly splitting, 4to (Qty: 14) See PMM 276 for Georges Cuvier. For volume 6 of this series the title was altered to Mémoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; and for volume 7 to Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physique de l'Institut National de France. In volumes 9-14 the word National is again omitted. In 1816 the Institut was remodelled and its transactions continued under the name Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France.
Académie des Sciences. Mémoires de l'Institut National des Sciences et Arts: Sciences Mathématiques et Physique, 14 volumes, Paris: mixed pubishers, 1798 - 1818, numerous engraved plates (some folding), half-titles, intermittent spotting or toning, volume 11 dated 1811 contains Cuvier (Georges and Brongniart, Alexandre), Essai sur la Geographie Mineralogique des Environs de Paris, two folding engraved plates (lightly offset), one folding engraved hand-coloured map, some hinges cracked, late19th century red/brown quarter morocco gilt, later cloth sidings, upper covers faintly showing oval impression to boards beneath cloth (from earlier leather sides?), rubbed with some marks, gilt dulled, two volumes with a short split to upper joint at head, 3 headcaps slightly splitting, 4to (Qty: 14) See PMM 276 for Georges Cuvier. For volume 6 of this series the title was altered to Mémoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; and for volume 7 to Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physique de l'Institut National de France. In volumes 9-14 the word National is again omitted. In 1816 the Institut was remodelled and its transactions continued under the name Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France.
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