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BOOKBINDING. Almanach Royal, année commune M.DCC.LXXXIX. Présenté a sa majeste pour la premiere fois en 1699, par Laurent d'Houry, éditeur. Mis en ordre et publié par Debure... Paris (de l'Imprimerie de la Veuve d'Houry & Debure) no date (1788). 8:o. (33), 34-714 pp. Dark red full morocco binding, somewhat worn, wide gilt borders with decorations within corners, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spine with french lilies in six compartments, all edges gilt. Minor foxing. Old inscription on the first free endpaper that the king (Louis XVI) has given the book to m. (C. G.) Lambert, controleur général (des finances). With the stamp of Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt on title leaf. Carl Gustaf Conrad Erik Lewenhaupt (born 1834), about his library, see Carlander IV:213.