Histoire des membres de l'Académie française, morts depuis 1700 jusqu'en 1771. Pour servir de suite aux Éloges imprimés et lus dans les séances publiques de cette Compagnie

First collected edition; only the first volume had appeared in 1779, published by the author; it is reprinted as issued with its relay title page. A series found quite rarely.
Contemporary full speckled blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine with two repeated tools (wheat sheaf and urn). Ornate black morocco title label and ornate beige morocco volume label. Restoration at head of volume I with a fawn leather piece covering the first two compartments; the first volume therefore no longer has its title label. Upper and lower joints of volume I largely cracked; joints restored on volumes 2, 3, 4; partly cracked at upper joint on volume 5. Good overall appearance. The eulogies are biographies that were read at Academy sessions, bringing together all the 18th-century members numbering 100. These speeches are often annotated for greater precision. The term eulogy should not be taken in its modern sense, as these are not only biographies and scholarly studies of a life but also critiques of a work and character, and all these lives provide precious information. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was elected on November 28, 1754 to the French Academy. He became its perpetual secretary on April 9, 1772. This edition is the work of Condorcet. Label of J. B. Desgrand, lawyer in Annonay.