Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1706

Second edition statement, illustrated with 26 plates, most of them folding, including a frontispiece. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf bindings. Decorated raised band spines. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. One lack at head of volume I. One corner bumped. Rubbing. Good copies.
Among the remarkable articles mentioned in each section, we note the following: Reflections on spaces more than infinite by M. Wallis by M. Varignon. Observations on the methods of Maximis & Minimis, where the identity & difference of that of the analysis of the infinitely small with those of M. Fermat and Hudde is shown, by M. Guisnée. Continuation of the establishment of some new genera of plants, by M. Tournefort. Reflections on the appearances of the body of the moon, by M. de La Hire. Discovery of a new star, by M. Maraldi. Supplement to the memoir on voice and tones, by M. Dodart. Observations on iron under burning glass, by M. Homberg. Solution to the problem proposed by Bernouilli, by M. Bernouilli, his brother. On honey and its chemical analysis, by M. Lemeri. Treatise on roulettes by M. de La Hire. Different ways of finding the osculating radii of all sorts of curves, by M. Varignon. Various astronomical and meteorological observations for the year 1706.