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AMERICAN ACADEMY. Memoirs of the Academy of Arts

AMERICAN ACADEMY. Memoirs of the Academy of Arts and Sciences: To the End of the Year M,DCC,LXXIII ... Volume One.
Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, 1785. 4to (254 x 203 mm). 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Condition: Occasional light spotting, offsetting to plates; wear to extremities, crack to foot of upper hinge and head of lower hinge. first edition containing over fifty articles by American scientists, inventors and scholars discussing botany, steel production, electricity and more. Evans 18900; Sabin 47572.

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