"Extraits des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris, publiés dans le années 1785 à 1789, avec planches et tableaux."

Title page vignette

"Tous les Mémoires épars dans la Collection des Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, depuis l'origine en 1666 jusqu'en 1790, se vendent séparément ..."--Avis, p. [2] (1st group)

Contains Mémoires I-III (1785); IV (1786); V (1787); VI (1788); and VII (1789)

Page 486 (last section) misnumbered as 686

Plates signed: Fossier del.; Y. le Gouaz sc.; gravé par Adam

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books

SCDIRB copy 39088000647479 has pages numbered 89-94 (apparently from a different publication) inserted between p. 576 and 577. These inserted pages may be extracted from the Analyse des travaux (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1826), based on comparison with digitized versions of the Analyse. The information in the inserted pages has no apparent relation to Coulomb's work, since they discuss Duperrey's voyage on the Coquille, an advancement in copper engraving, and other scientific discoveries

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science no. 58; in Grolier exhib. 1958

SCDIRB copy has a later burgundy quarter-leather binding with mottled paper boards; raised bands; gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, and black speckled edges

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