Letterpress title with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece of the Académie Royale des Sciences by and after Sebastien Le Clerc and printed by Goyton, engraved historiated headpiece, tailpiece, and initial after and by Le Clerc. Illustration: 39 very fine full-sheet engraved plates (unnumbered) after Nicolas Robert by Robert (28) and Abraham Bosse (11). About ten plates with early brief identifications or other annotations, one within platemark. Broadsheets (22 1/8 x 17 in.; 564 x 432 mm). Binding: Retrospective red morocco in contemporary French style, spines gilt in eight compartments with repeated fleur-de-lis tool, covers with gilt French fillet border and frame, gilt edges, old endpapers. Some offsetting, occasional light browning or marginal soiling to text. Extremities rubbed.
Letterpress title with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece of the Académie Royale des Sciences by and after Sebastien Le Clerc and printed by Goyton, engraved historiated headpiece, tailpiece, and initial after and by Le Clerc. Illustration: 39 very fine full-sheet engraved plates (unnumbered) after Nicolas Robert by Robert (28) and Abraham Bosse (11). About ten plates with early brief identifications or other annotations, one within platemark. Broadsheets (22 1/8 x 17 in.; 564 x 432 mm). Binding: Retrospective red morocco in contemporary French style, spines gilt in eight compartments with repeated fleur-de-lis tool, covers with gilt French fillet border and frame, gilt edges, old endpapers. Some offsetting, occasional light browning or marginal soiling to text. Extremities rubbed.
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