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ROYAL ALMANACH, year 1769. Paris, Le Breton, s.d....

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ROYAL ALMANACH, year 1769. Paris, Le Breton, s.d. [1769]. In-8, red morocco, boards decorated with a large gilt plate with interlacing motifs, spine decorated with repeated fleurs-de-lis, interior roulette, lining and endpapers of blue tabis, gilt edges (Period binding). Beautiful binding decorated with an elegant gilt plate by Dubuisson. This plate was presented in the 1910 catalog of bindings by Rahir (n°184-c). From the library of Henry Houssaye, member of the Académie française (1912, n°250). Slight rubbing to the binding, minor fading to one corner.