Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1728

Illustrated edition with 5 plates for volume 1, 18 for volume 2, most folding, totaling 23 plates. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full brown marbled calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. One lack at head of volume 2. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Handsome copy.
Notable articles to be retained in each of the mentioned sections include: Dissertation on the estimation & motive force of bodies, by M. de Mairan. On the movement of Saturn, by M. Cassini. Physical explanation of a disease that kills several plants in Gatinois & particularly saffron, by M. Du Hamel. On movement accelerated by springs and forces that reside in moving bodies, by M. l'Abbé Camus. Demonstrating that the uvea is flat in man, by M. Petit. General laws of movement in the spherical vortex, by M. l'Abbé de Molières. Different ways of knowing the size of the chambers of aqueous humor in human eyes. Research on the causes of multiplication of fruit species, by M. Du Hamel.