Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres : depuis son établissement, avec les éloges des académiciens morts, depuis son renouvellement
Claude Gros de Boze, Paul Tallemant, Claude-Pierre Goujet, Marie-Joséphine-Louise de Savoie (Former owner), Sylvain van der Weyer (Former owner), Hippolyte-Louis Guérin (Printer)
Print Book, French, M. DCC. XL. [1740]
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, rue S. Jacques, à S. Thomas d'Aquin., A Paris,, M. DCC. XL. [1740]
Printing privileges (Publishing) France Paris 1749
3 v. : 1 ill. (engraved) ; 17 cm. (12mo)
11871486
Each v. has half title
By Claude Gros de Boze. L'abbé Paul Tallemant wrote several of the éloges. L'abbé Claude Pierre Goujet compiled the lists of the works of the deceased academicians. Cf. Barbier
Signatures: v.1: piA⁸ B⁴ a-m⁸/⁴ n⁴ A⁸ (A2 + A*2)--B⁴ C-V⁸/⁴ X⁶ Y²; v.2: pi² A-2P⁸/⁴ 2Q⁸ 2R²; v.3: ℗1² A-S⁸/⁴ T⁴ P⁴ V⁴ X-2A⁸/⁴ 2B⁸ 2C-2F⁸/⁴ 2G⁴ 2H-2R⁸/⁴
Cancels: v.2: A2, A5, C5, D3, E6, P1, 2D6 (missigned X2), 2Q3
Vol. 1: xxiii, [1], 150, [6], 3-251, [5] p.; v.2: [4], 471, [5] p.; v.3: [4], 468, [12] p. (last [3] p. blank)
Page [4], 4th group, numbered "1*; p. [5], 4th group numbered "2"; p. [6], 4th group, numbered "2*"
The engraved ill. is in v. 1 (p. 19, 3rd group)
Each v. has engraved title vignette. Engraved head-pieces, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, initials
Printing privilege, v.3, p. [5] at end