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Almanach des héroïdes : contes, fables, théatres, poesies, &c. avec trés belles figures.

Accession number
PML 195290
Published
A Amsterdam : Chez M. Magerus, Libraire, [1772]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2008.
Notes
"Pour l'annee MDCCLXXIII."
Miniature almanac containing excerpts from poems by Claude Joseph Dorat and illustrated with 6 double-page engravings after previously printed designs by Charles Eisen, here reduced in format.
Description
72 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 10 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Sir David Lionel Salomons; purchased from Nina Musinsky, Feb. 2009.
Binding
Contemporary red gilt morocco with a centerpiece design showing a hawking scene on both covers; in a contemporary brown calf pull-off case housed in a Riviere & Son olive morocco pull-off case.
Classification
Department