ALEMBERT (Jean Le Rond d') History of the members... Lot 14

ALEMBERT (Jean Le Rond d') History of the members of the French Academy, who died from 1700 to 1771. As a follow-up to the Praise printed and read in the public sessions of this Company À Paris, Chez Moutard, 1787, 6 vol. in-12, blond marbled calf, smooth spines decorated with a succession of six pieces of morocco, whose colours - red, green, bronze and lemon - are arranged alternately, four of them bearing a gilt fleuron, another, the tomaison, the last, the title pushed in gilt letters, triple gilt fillet framing on the dishes, gilt fillet on the cups, jaspered edges (rel. of the period). Beautiful copy in a very curious binding...