[Almanachs]

[Almanachs]

Almanach royal pour l'an Mil sept cens cinq [... 1706, 1707, 1709].

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1705-1709.

Four royal almanacs.

4 volumes 8° (circa 185 x 120 mm – 7 ⁹/₃₂ x 4 ²³/₃₂ in). Vellum with gilt fillets, and French royal arms and various types of fleur-de-lys decoration, spines with gilt fleurs-de-lys stamps, edges mottled or gilt (Publisher’s binding). 

1705: spotting and damp spots. Disbound and chafed.

1706: leading edges split.

1707: vellum stained and yellowed.

1709: rebound, renewed endpapers, title browned, marginal spotting, including additional bifolio p. 42.

Provenance

Library of the château de Valençay, Talleyrand's estate from 1803 (blue ink stamp on the 1705 almanac);

Historian and chartist Eugène Aubry-Vitet (1706, armorial bookplate);

Fleury (1707);

Sotheby's Paris, 18 December 2014, lot 61.

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Réunion de 4 almanachs royaux 1705-1709 en vélin.

Almanach royal pour l'an Mil sept cens cinq [... 1706, 1707, 1709].

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1705-1709.

Provenance

Bibliothèque du château de Valençay, propriété de Talleyrand à partir de 1803 (cachet à l'encre bleue sur l'almanach de 1705);

Historien et chartiste Eugène Aubry-Vitet (1706, ex-libris armorié);

Fleury (1707);

Sotheby's Paris, 18 décembre 2014, lot 61.