Discours prononcés à l'Académie Royale de Peinture de Londres, suivis des notes du même auteur, sur le Poëme de l'Art de Peindre, de Dufresnoy.

2 vol., 8vo: xii-407, [4]-395-[3] pp. (some spotting).

Contemp. gilt marbled calf, flat spines (sl. rubbed). Good copy.

French trsl. of the speeches (1769-1786) of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) before the Royal Academy of Arts, of which he was the founder and first president.
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Prov. Prize book given to Adolphe Quetelet, 11 May 1810, at the "Université Impériale Lycée de Gand, 1ère classe de Dessin" (prize leaf). Quetelet (Ghent 1796-1874) was to become the father of statistics in social sciences, and the inventor of the Body Mass Index (BMI).