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Lot n° 204
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IMPERIAL ALMANACH for the year M.DCCC.VI. Paris, Testu, [180 - Lot 204
IMPERIAL ALMANACH for the year M.DCCC.VI. Paris, Testu, [1806]. Very large in-8, 846-(2 of which the last is blank) pp, long-grained red morocco, smooth spine cloisonné and decorated with gilded motifs including 2 crowned imperial eagles and a star, gilded frieze comprising scrolls of palmettes framing the boards with a gilded shield in the center surmounted by an imperial eagle haloed by stars and supporting a cross of the Legion of Honor, decorated edges, inner gilded roulette, blue tabis linings and endpapers, edges gilded on red tint; the surface of the shield bears a piece of the same leather and the same hue added at the time (period binding).
THE FIRST ALMANACH TO RESTORE THE GREGORY CALENDAR; the revolutionary calendar system was definitively abandoned on January 1, 1806.
Copper-engraved imperial coat-of-arms in the text, adorning the title.
A box has been added to this copy, but the sheet to be replaced has been jointly retained: signed *[H7] (p. 125-126), this box contains a more complete description of the missions of the first division of the Grand Chancellery of the Order of the Legion of Honor.
A RARE COPY ON LARGE PAPER (VELIN FORT), ENHANCED BY RICH CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO WITH IMPERIAL MOTIFS.
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the gilded shield in the center of the boards bears the initial "P".
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