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Lot n° 17

ALMANACH DE LA TOILETTE ET DE LA COIFFURE

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Des dames françoises, followed by a dissertation on that of the Roman ladies. Paris, Desnos, s.d. (1781), in-24, red mar., gilt thread framing the boards, smooth spine, decorated, pencil case, gilt tr. (rel. of the period). With a frontispiece and 24 beautiful plates of hairstyles from Henri IV to 1777, each engraving in an oval medallion topped by an ornament. Text engraved in a frame opposite each figure. On the white verso of the text corresponding to the first 5 engravings, accounts were written in ink at the time. It is bound in the suite Le secrétaire des Dames et des Messieurs.