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ROYAL ALMANACH, year 1782. Paris, D'Houry, s.d....

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ROYAL ALMANACH, year 1782. Paris, D'Houry, s.d. [1782]. In-8, red morocco, large gilt frame on the boards, spine decorated with a fleur-de-lys decoration, interior roulette, lining and endpapers of blue tabis, gilt edges (period binding). Year printed by D'Houry, printer-library of the Duke of Orleans. Beautiful copy in a rocaille plate binding by Dubuisson (Rahir, n°184-l). It bears, on a guard, the engraved label dated 1756 and with the sign of the black Teste of the merchant-papetier Larcher. Notebooks F and L a little yellowed, angular paper missing on the last white guard.