Lot no. 2
Almanac (sic) ou calendrier pour l'année Mil six cens quatrevints-dix huit : exactement supputé pour l'élévation et le méridien de Paris - A Paris, chez Laurent D'Houry, 1698 - In-8 of 96 pp, (4) ff. of which 2 unfolded; ivory vellum, spine decorated with gilt lilies, framed with gilt fillets on the covers, year "1698" gilt in a medallion in the centre of the covers. (Contemporary binding). This is the penultimate edition published under this title, the almanac becoming "royal" from 1700.
A pleasant copy in contemporary vellum, the date 1698 on the boards seems to have been gilt later, the first board is cracked.
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