ROYAL ALMANACH, leap year 1760. Paris, Le Breton, 1760. In-8, white calf, on the boards decorated with mosaic-cut parts of red and green morocco, and compartments covered with mica on a background of pearls of various colors on which gold and silver ornaments stand out, the whole arranged around a central medallion containing coats of arms painted under mica, of two different models; mosaic pastilles and gold dots on the white calf, gilt rollers and irons on the red and green morocco parts; spine decorated in the same taste, inner rollers, lining and endpapers of pink tabis, gilt edges, black chagrin box signed Lobstein-Laurenchet (Period binding)
Sumptuous white calf binding mosaic decorated with paillons under mica, with the painted arms of Flahaut de la Billarderie, probably Charles-Claude, comte d'Angiviller (1730-1809), personal friend of Louis XVI who appointed him director general of the King's Buildings in 1774, succeeding to the marquis de Marigny, the brother of Madame de Pompadour.
The Count d'Angiviller encouraged history painting and neoclassicism, and commissioned David to paint the Oath of the Horatii. He commissioned sculptors such as Houdon and Pajou to work with him and decided in 1771 to use the great gallery of the Louvre to exhibit the royal collections, which he constantly enriched. He emigrated in 1791 to Denmark where he died.
Engraved label of the paper merchant Larcher, in La Teste Noire, dated 1756, stuck on a guard.
Ex-libris Henri Beraldi (not in the catalog).
Some mosaic parts restored, the mica protecting the coat of arms replaced, irregular chasses, modern title piece.
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