![ALMANAC -- Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXVIII. Paris: Le Breton, [1778]. 8° (195 x 122mm). Cancels: Ff4 and Qq3. Woodcut royal arms on title, head- and tailpieces, and ornaments. Letterpress tables in the text, calendar at beginning interleaved. Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with the arms of ?François-Jean Orceau de Fontette (1718-1794) [cf. Olivier 1770, fer 1] 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, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: annotations to interleaves and occasionally to text in an early neat hand.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05476_0027_000(almanac_--_almanach_royal_annee_mdcclxxviii_paris_le_breton_1778_8_can041552).jpg?w=1)
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ALMANAC -- Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXVIII. Paris: Le Breton, [1778]. 8° (195 x 122mm). Cancels: Ff4 and Qq3. Woodcut royal arms on title, head- and tailpieces, and ornaments. Letterpress tables in the text, calendar at beginning interleaved. Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with the arms of ?François-Jean Orceau de Fontette (1718-1794) [cf. Olivier 1770, fer 1] 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, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: annotations to interleaves and occasionally to text in an early neat hand.
Office de la Semaine Sainte en Latin & en Francois à l'usage de Rome & de Paris. Paris: la Veuve Mazieres et Garnier, 1728. 8° (193 x 126mm). Engraved title and 3 plates by J. Scotin, finely-bound in contemporary red French morocco, covers with wide gilt floral roll-tool borders and arms of Marie Leczinska, Queen of Louis XV, gilt fleur-de-lys in compartments of spine, buntpapier endpapers, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, corners slightly more heavily). Provenance: sold at Christie's South Kensington 18 March 1994, lot 349. (2)
Office de la Semaine Sainte en Latin & en Francois à l'usage de Rome & de Paris. Paris: la Veuve Mazieres et Garnier, 1728. 8° (193 x 126mm). Engraved title and 3 plates by J. Scotin, finely-bound in contemporary red French morocco, covers with wide gilt floral roll-tool borders and arms of Marie Leczinska, Queen of Louis XV, gilt fleur-de-lys in compartments of spine, buntpapier endpapers, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, corners slightly more heavily). Provenance: sold at Christie's South Kensington 18 March 1994, lot 349. (2)