[ALMANACK.] Königl. Groß-Brittannischer und Churfürstl. Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staats-Kalender auf das Jahr 1798

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ALMANACK Königl. Groß-Brittannischer und Churfürstl. Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staats-Kalender auf das Jahr 1798 Lauenburg: ‘gedruckt mit Berenbergschen Schriften [i.e. Eberhard Friedrich Justus Heinrich Berenberg] und zu bekommen bey dem Burgermeister Meyer. [1798.] 8vo. In a handsome contemporary binding of white silk, upper board with the cypher of King George III worked in silver threads and embellished with sequins surmounted by his crown embroidered in red, rear board with cornucopia embroidered in green, brown, pink, and metallic threads, both boards with floral sequin cornerpieces and within an embroidered foliate border with red flowers embellished with small sequins, original bright green endpapers, housed in a modern drop-backed box of burgundy buckram; pp. [xxxii], 264, 34, [16]; woodcut crowned cypher of George III against ground of clouds to f. C1r, British Royal coat of arms to title; outer border of small sequins removed at an earlier date, sequins to foliate border largely perished, neatly rebacked in oatmeal cloth, some wear to boards with loss of some threads to central panels, slight tarnishing and discolouration; some foxing to flyleaves; else internally clean and bright; a very good copy. A rare almanack-cum-bureaucratic directory for 1798, provincially printed in Lauenberg in honour of George III – the first British Hanover monarch to be born in England – as King of Great Britain, and Ireland Elector of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, our copy

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