Etrennes mignonnes Curieuses et utiles Augmentées pour l’Année 1743

by Memento Mori Binding –

$1,600 · Offered by Musinsky Rare Books

32mo binding size 99 x 57 mm . 64 pp. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, double-page engraved map of France at end. Contemporary emblematic binding of gold-blocked brown goatskin, both covers with a panel stamp incorporating at center a scythe and an hourglass, framed in curving lines, with drawer-handle ornaments, flowering plants, a cornucopia, birds, a grapevine, and a monkey warming his hands at a fire; pink satin

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