"Lovely Pocket Book In Olive Decorated Morocco From 1762. In Paris, Illustrated With Two Maps "
Rare and beautiful Royal Almanac, Year M. DCC.LXII. In Paris from the Imprimerie de Le Breton, Imprimeur ordinary du Roy, at the bottom of rue de la Harpe 1762. This charming pocket copy is in full olive morocco, ribbed spine decorated with fleur-de-lys irons, boards framed with a large frieze of vine branches gilded with gold with pretty irons. Contains a calendar with a table of monthly gambling gains and losses, the Births of the Princes and Princesses of Europe, the council of dispatches etc. "The Court Calendar" taken from the ephemeris, containing: the Place, the Rising & the Sunset & the Moon, &c... For the Year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two. With the Birth of Kings, Queens, Princesses, etc. Printed for the Royal Family and Her Majesty's Household. In Paris, rueS. Jacques of the Printing House of Jean-Jacques-Et. Collombat, Printer of the King of Cabinets & House of SM And to finish the Etrennes Mignones, curious and useful, with several increases & corrections in the Year One thousand seven hundred and sixty-two. In Paris at Durand, rue du Foin, the first carriage entrance when entering from rue Saint-Jacques. 1762. Contains two folding maps, one of France and the other of the surroundings of Paris. A beautiful piece in three parts.