ROYAL ALMANACH, leap year 1776. Paris, Le... - Lot 13 - Giquello

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ROYAL ALMANACH, leap year 1776. Paris, Le... - Lot 13 - Giquello
ROYAL ALMANACH, leap year 1776. Paris, Le Breton, s.d. [1776]. In-8, red morocco, wide lace with small irons with gilt lyre in the corners, coat of arms in the center, spine decorated with fleur-de-lis repeated in the caissons, inner scroll, lining and endpapers of blue tabis, gilt edges (Period binding). Copy in morocco with lace bearing the arms of Antoine de Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry. Rare and sought-after provenance. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), academician and general farmer, was appointed regisseur des Poudres et Salpêtres in 1775 by Turgot. Most of the books and manuscripts that belonged to him were acquired in the 1950s by Duveen, and later entered the collections of Cornell University in the United States. Large engraved label of the paper merchant Larcher, under the sign of La Teste noire, pasted on one endpaper. The volume was included in the Lavoisier exhibition at the Palais de la découverte (label): for this exhibition, which was held from November 1943 to January 1944 on the occasion of the second centenary of Lavoisier's birth, the chemist's study and library had been reconstructed; this almanac was included there, alongside 25 other royal almanacs (p. 29). Small trace of moisture on the first cover, spine faded.
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