Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1727

Illustrated edition with 5 plates for volume 1, 18 for volume 2, most folding, totaling 23 plates. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece in volume 1.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. A lack at head of volume 2. Rubbing. Lacking the first leaf of the epistle. Handsome copy.
Notable among the articles mentioned in each section are the following remarkable pieces: Research on the proper motion of fixed stars through observations of Arcturus, by M. Delislede la Croère. Observations and experiments on one of the species of salamander, by M. de Maupertuis. General rules or laws of oblique fluid impacts against a plane surface, by M. Pitot. General idea of the different ways porcelain can be made, and what are the true methods of China, by M. de Réaumur. Remarks on regular inscribed and circumscribed polygons, by M. Du Fay. New method of developing curves, by M. de Maupertuis. Explanation of the tables of Jupiter's first satellite, by M. Maraldi.