68 autograph signatures of Members of L'Académie des Sciences on manuscript list of members, plus other autograph signatures on letters, all bound into a volume history of the Academy by Ernest Maindron. 9½x6, period mottled boards recased with later morocco backing, gilt-letterred spine.

With the bookplate of H.F. Norman. The list of members (Laplace, Le Gendre, Ampere et al) is inked at top in French, "State of Distribution for...Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences, during the month of November 1826." Also bound in are other autograph letters, as well as mounted clippings. A nice printed book in itself, with a hand-colored plate, portraits and other illustrations throughout.