Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1736

Illustrated edition with 10 plates for volume 1, 23 for volume 2, most folding, totaling 33 plates. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece and a title vignette in volume 1.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title-label, and volume label in black wax. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. The first leaf of the dedication appears to be lacking; the text of the dedication is complete, but without the epistle page. Handsome copy.
The following remarkable articles will be noted in each of the mentioned sections: Solution for some problems of dynamics, by M. Clairaut. Method of finding the height of the pole, & the declination of stars that is not subject to refraction, by M. Maraldi. Precautions that must be taken to observe as exactly as possible, the heights of stars, by M. Cassini de Thury. On the manner of reconciling in the hypothesis of vortices the two rules of Kepler, by M. Cassini. Resolution of an astronomical question, useful to navigation, by M. Pitot. On the figure of the earth, by M. de Maupertuis. On the perpendicular to the meridian of the observatory at a distance of 60000 toises towards the north, by M. Cassini de Thury. Method for finding the declination of stars, by M. de Maupertuis. On the manner of determining the figure of the earth by measuring degrees of latitude and longitude, by M. Bouguer.