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ALMANAC -- Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXXVII ... Mis en ordre et publié par Debure, gendre de feu M. d'Houry. [Paris]: the widow of d'Houry and Debure, [1786].
8° (195 x 125mm). Woodcut royal arms on title, head- and tailpieces, and ornaments. Letterpress tables in the text. (Scattered light spotting and occasional light browning.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with the arms of La Caisse d'escompte de Paris [cf. Olivier 1620, fer 3, similar dimensions but with minor variations, on a copy of Almanach royal for 1792], surrounded by foliate tools, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in two, the others decorated with fleurs-de-lis, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, blue endpapers, blue silk marker, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: La Caisse d'escompte de Paris (established in 1776 and dissolved in 1793; binding) -- armorial bookplate on upper pastedown.
A FINELY-BOUND ALMANACH ROYAL, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LA CAISSE D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS. La Caisse d'escompte de Paris was established in 1776 under the direction of the economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781); although ostensibly intended to provide commercial services, in effect it functioned as a national bank in many ways, drawing into its administration such luminaries as Lavoisier. La Caisse d'escompte survived the upheaval of the revolution, but was eventually suppressed in 1793. Despite its short period of operation, it could justly claim to be the precursor of the Napoleonic Banque de France, created in 1800.
8° (195 x 125mm). Woodcut royal arms on title, head- and tailpieces, and ornaments. Letterpress tables in the text. (Scattered light spotting and occasional light browning.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with the arms of La Caisse d'escompte de Paris [cf. Olivier 1620, fer 3, similar dimensions but with minor variations, on a copy of Almanach royal for 1792], surrounded by foliate tools, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in two, the others decorated with fleurs-de-lis, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, blue endpapers, blue silk marker, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: La Caisse d'escompte de Paris (established in 1776 and dissolved in 1793; binding) -- armorial bookplate on upper pastedown.
A FINELY-BOUND ALMANACH ROYAL, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LA CAISSE D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS. La Caisse d'escompte de Paris was established in 1776 under the direction of the economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781); although ostensibly intended to provide commercial services, in effect it functioned as a national bank in many ways, drawing into its administration such luminaries as Lavoisier. La Caisse d'escompte survived the upheaval of the revolution, but was eventually suppressed in 1793. Despite its short period of operation, it could justly claim to be the precursor of the Napoleonic Banque de France, created in 1800.
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