MEMOIRES DE MATHEMATIQUE ET DE PHYSIQUE, REDIGES A L'OBSERVATOIRE DE MARSEILLE, ANNEE 1756.

Avignon: La Veuve Girard, 1756. Full calf. Near fine. Lg. 4to. viii,390,(2)pp. With the half-title. With the 6 folding plates as called for. Nicely bound in modern black calf, gilt title and date on spine.

This is the second of only 2 volumes published (the first volume in 1755 is in 2 parts) of a scarce scientific annual. It consists of long scholarly articles, largely dealing with astronomy, but also contains numerous miscellaneous subjects. There are 2 "letters" written from Peking by the Jesuit Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718-1793) on Chinese weights (truncated) and measures (pp. 61-83) and an article on Polish windmills (pp. 107-164), etc., etc. The director of the Observatory at Marseille at this date was the French Jesuit astronomer Esprit Pezenas. (Inventory #: 9861)