Paris France: Academie Nationale de Musique et de Danse 1922. Folio. String Bound Programme. 24 pp. B&W illustrations. Good with minor tear to head of spine some staining to covers. En Francais. Paris, France: Academie Nationale de Musique et de Danse, 1922. unknown
Paris:: Gauthier-Villars 1890. 1890. 8vo. 230 pp. pages 15-16 torn without loss. Original green printed wrappers; covers off good working copy. Signature of Roger Hahn. Rare. Cited in Roger Hahn's classic The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution; The Paris Academy of Science 1666-1803 1971 p. 409. Gauthier-Villars, [1890]. unknown books
Sans date. Mémoires de littérature tirés des registres de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres depuis l'année 1761 jusqu'en l'année 1763. Tome cinquante-septième. 1773 chez P. Panckoucke. Exemplaire en bel état d'usage sauf pied des pages avec une petite mouillure peu marquée voir photos unknown
Paris: Delaguette & Le Prieur 1753. 1st edition. 3 vols. 4to. Frontispieces in each volume engraved by Le Bas after Francois Boucher 1703-70. c.1900pp. 258 x 192mm.Contemporary half calf gilt a little rubbed. Occasional very light foxing or browning faint dampstain on a few leaves in vol. 1 but a fine set still. Bookplate & signatures in vol. 1.</p> <p> FIRST EDITION complete 4to. run later volumes appeared in 12mo. only Collects the prize competition papers of the Royal Academy of Surgery from the 1730's to the 1750's and features a frontispiece repeated in each volume by Francois Boucher considered the greatest French master of the first half of the 18th centuryand probably the most productive and versatile painter of the century. As royal painter Boucher could probably be called on to grace the prize publication of the recently created Royal Academy of Surgery; nevertheless a medical work illustrated by an artist of his rank was no less an exception then as now and should be valued on that basis. Blake 2.</p> . Delaguette & Le Prieur unknown
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