![[FRENCH MANUSCRIPT.] "La famille royale." France, 1805, introduction dated 1816.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01769_0527_000(122645).jpg?w=1)
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[FRENCH MANUSCRIPT.] "La famille royale." France, 1805, introduction dated 1816.
66 mm diameter. CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 62 leaves on circular paper. Contents: 10pp. Introduction [first and last leaves with gilt leaf on recto and verso]; title, 2pp. contents, 102pp. text; 6pp. table. Title with elaborate watercolor border, first text leaf with narrow decorative watercolor border, other leaves with one wide and one narrow rule borders. Hand-colored stipple engraved portrait of Louis XVI and his family facing first text leaf, engraved portrait of the royal family facing f.28 and pen-and-ink drawing showing "Madame Royale" in prayer on vellum facing f.94. Contemporary French red straight-grained morocco, circular gilt border, short spine gilt; original green board round pull-off case. Provenance: purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 15 May 1951.
A very charming calligraphic manuscript in a tiny hand written by a French Royalist who had lived through the French Revolution. The author, whose entwined initials are given on the title-page perhaps reading "L.C.H." writes an homage to the Royal family and dedicated to the Duchess of Angouleme, the surviving daughter of Louis XVI.
66 mm diameter. CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 62 leaves on circular paper. Contents: 10pp. Introduction [first and last leaves with gilt leaf on recto and verso]; title, 2pp. contents, 102pp. text; 6pp. table. Title with elaborate watercolor border, first text leaf with narrow decorative watercolor border, other leaves with one wide and one narrow rule borders. Hand-colored stipple engraved portrait of Louis XVI and his family facing first text leaf, engraved portrait of the royal family facing f.28 and pen-and-ink drawing showing "Madame Royale" in prayer on vellum facing f.94. Contemporary French red straight-grained morocco, circular gilt border, short spine gilt; original green board round pull-off case. Provenance: purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 15 May 1951.
A very charming calligraphic manuscript in a tiny hand written by a French Royalist who had lived through the French Revolution. The author, whose entwined initials are given on the title-page perhaps reading "L.C.H." writes an homage to the Royal family and dedicated to the Duchess of Angouleme, the surviving daughter of Louis XVI.