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ST PETERSBURG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1750-67. Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. Tom. I-XI [pro anni MDCCXLVII-MDCCLXVII]. St. Petersburg 1750-67.

4to (250 x 220 mm.) 1 engraved frontispiece, and a total of 175 engraved folding plates. [See collation below]. Volumes I-V, VII and IX-XI bound in worn contemporary boards with red edges, volumes VI and VIII sewn as issued, uncut, in contemporary grey paper wrappers. Volume I loose in front hinge.

Condition: Occasional foxing, browning and minor tears.Title leaf and pp. 73-76 loose in volume I, paper burst at impressum of title leaf, hole in margin p. 447 in volume II, damp in lower corner pp. 67-108 in volume VI, lower corner p. 29 in volume VII torn, stain in top margin pp. 133-201 and 530-544 in volume X, hole, but no loss of print in plate XIV in volume XI. Old, unidentified owner´s signature in the bound volumes.

More was published, this series up to tom. XX (printed 1776). It was preceded by Commentarii Academiae scientiarum imperialis Petropolitanae (1726-51) and succeded by Acta Academiae scientiarum imperialis petropolitanae (1778-86).
The St. Petersburg academy - a project of Peter the Great, advised by, among others, Leibniz - was founded in 1724 and its members were mainly of foreign, chiefly German, nationalities. Through names like Goldbach, Bilfinger, Bernoulli, Gmelin, Lexell, Wolff, Delisle and Euler it soon gained an international reputation. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was enrolled in 1727 and began an exceptionally productive period in mathematics and physics. Political turmoil forced him to leave Russia in 1741, and he spent the next 25 years in Berlin before he returned to St. Petersburg in 1766, invited by Catherine the Great. Throughout his Berlin years he corresponded with the Russian academy, and much of his work found original publication in its Novi commentarii...
Apart from Euler´s, contributions from many leading scientists, like Krafft, Richmann, Lomonosov and Aepini, are included, also one by Linnaeus (Nitraria planta obscura explicata, 1761).
For a list of original Euler articles in this lot, see: http://eulerarchive.maa.org/tour/tour_08.html (numbers E134-38, E190, E166-67, E 188-96, E228-32, E241-49, E250-65 , E269-88, E295-304 and E322-31).

Brunet II p. 237, most probably erroneoulsy counting 19 plates in tom. I. Soulsby 559 for Linnaeus.

Collation: I: (2), 76, (4), 136, 141-144, 137-140, 145-194, 197-198, 195-196, 199-498, (2) pp.
II: (2), 30, (2 blank, 3, 1 blank), 471 pp.
III: 38, (3, 1 blank), 5-6, 3-4, 7-473 pp.
IV: (2), 70, 321, 326-327, 324-325, 322-323, 328-494 pp.
V: (2), 47, (1 blank), 480 pp.
VI: 44, 564 pp.
VII: 47, (1 blank), 520 pp.
VIII: (70), 532 pp.
IX: 54, (2), 512 pp.
X: 67, (4, 1 blank), 558 pp.
XI: 54, (2 blank), 574, (2) pp.

Provenance: From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).

Sold as a lot, not subject to return.

Auktionsnummer:

6199

Datum:

2019-06-14