ALMANACH VIOLET, for the year 1798, containing a historical summary of the day of the 18th fruit tree; anecdotes; an adventure from the other world, some details on theophilantropes; a dialogue between two dead people; the letter of a famous thief; predictions for every month of the year, etc. etc.
Paris: the merchants of novelties,[1797].
-
In-18, blue embossed paperboard, gold roller on the edges of the plates, smooth back decorated (
early 19th century
binding
).
Rare almanac illustrated with an anonymous frontispiece representing deputies leaving the Temple, a disguised allusion to the tyranny of
the government.
We find related to
the following:
- Strenna to the friends of the eighteenth, or almanac For the year of grace: One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. Paris: Theophilantropes printing house, Year VII of
the
Royalist Almanac
Republic,
written by Abbot Guillon de Montléon
. The
text is entirely dedicated to the events of the 18 fructidor and opens with an epistle dedicated to "Polichinel" by Polichinelophilos
. The
edition is illustrated with a beautiful and amusing legendary plate "Muhammad-Theophilantrope
".
Good copy in back binding. A few scattered freckles.
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