COLLECTION ACADÉMIQUE, composée des mémoires, actes ou journaux des plus célèbres académies et sociétés littéraires étrangères... Dijon, François Desventes ; Auxerre, François Fournier [et Paris], 1755-1761. 6 volumes in-4 (of 13), marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (contemporary binding). Head of the foreign series of the Collection académique, illustrated in these first six volumes with 136 copper-engraved plates, often folding, concerning natural history, botany, experimental physics, chemistry, medicine and anatomy. This complete scientific journal, published from 1754 to 1787 on the initiative of Jean Berryat, comprises 29 volumes, including 16 for the French series and 13 for the foreign series. Covers missing, hinges split in the sixth volume, some foxing.