Brief account of how the Societaet der Wissenschafften... Lot 766

Brief account of how the Societaet der Wissenschafften oder Zu mehrer Aufnahme des gelehrten Wesens abzielende Gesellschafft was founded by His Royal Majesty in Prussia Frederick I at his headquarters in Berlin and how it came to be fully established. With the letter of the foundation, the laws of the institution, the speeches held at the dissolution and the Catalogi Membrorum Societatis. With engraved title vignette and engraved coin vignette. Berlin, Schlechtiger for Papen, 1711. 31 nn. Pl. 8°. Later HPgt. with gilt embossed ribbed label (v-joint cracked, somewhat rubbed). Preußen Kurtze Erzehlung Welchergestalt Von Sr. Kön. Maj. in Preußen Friederich dem I. in Dero Hauptsitz Berlin die Societaet der Wissenschafften Oder Zu mehrer Aufnahme des gelehrten Wesens abzielende Gesellschafft gestiftet worden und wie dieselbe zu ihrer völligen Niedersetzung gediehen. With the letter of the foundation, the laws of the institution, the speeches held at the dissolution and the Catalogi Membrorum Societatis. With engraved title vignette and engraved coin vignette. Berlin, Schlechtiger for Papen, 1711. 31 nn. Pl. 8°. Later HPgt. with gilt embossed ribbed label (V joint cracked, somewhat rubbed). First edition. - VD18 14452677. - Writing on the foundation of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, with a list of members in the appendix. - Endpapers renewed. Somewhat browned. A good copy.