Almanacs.- Bijou des Dames (Le), ou Description des Diamans, des Perles et des Parfums..., engraved additional pictorial title and frontispiece, 12 engraved plates of ladies' hairstyles, each with facing leaf of text, engraved tables 'Usage du Sécretaire' (diary, accounts etc., partly blank for owner's use), lacking some leaves from engraved tables (see below), with contemporary annotations and entries to tables in ink or pencil, also to endpapers, some light soiling, a few stains, attractive contemporary red morocco with triple gilt filet border with loops for stylus at fore-edge (stylus not present, replaced with modern pen), spine gilt in compartments with green morocco label, g.e., a little rubbed (mainly at corners and spine ends), Paris, Desnos, [?1779] § Leipziger Taschenbuch für Frauenzimmer zum Nutzen und Vergnügen für das Jahr 1799, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates, 2 by Hoppe of ladies' fashions, 11 by Berger after Schubert and one hand-coloured of spider raiding a bird's nest, 2 folding sheets of musical notation, lightly browned, contemporary glazed green pictorial limp boards, g.e., rather worn and creased, splits to joints, Leipzig, Adam Friedrich Böhme, 1799, 12mo & 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is a rare almanac for women; a sequel to L'Almanach de la Toilette & de la Coëffure des Dames Françoises et Romaines, & du Souvenir à lAngloise of 1777. Comprising: 33pp. of text on diamonds and pearls; engraved plates of hairstyles numbered 25-36; 'Usage du Sécretaire' engraved pages numbered 5-46, lacking pp.1-4, 9/10 (Mardi/Mercredi) & 13/14 (Samedi); 12pp. letterpress list of saints' days. Library Hub & WorldCat record only 2 copies: V & A (mentions illustrations but no pagination given) and BL (33pp. only, no plates).
Almanacs.- Bijou des Dames (Le), ou Description des Diamans, des Perles et des Parfums..., engraved additional pictorial title and frontispiece, 12 engraved plates of ladies' hairstyles, each with facing leaf of text, engraved tables 'Usage du Sécretaire' (diary, accounts etc., partly blank for owner's use), lacking some leaves from engraved tables (see below), with contemporary annotations and entries to tables in ink or pencil, also to endpapers, some light soiling, a few stains, attractive contemporary red morocco with triple gilt filet border with loops for stylus at fore-edge (stylus not present, replaced with modern pen), spine gilt in compartments with green morocco label, g.e., a little rubbed (mainly at corners and spine ends), Paris, Desnos, [?1779] § Leipziger Taschenbuch für Frauenzimmer zum Nutzen und Vergnügen für das Jahr 1799, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates, 2 by Hoppe of ladies' fashions, 11 by Berger after Schubert and one hand-coloured of spider raiding a bird's nest, 2 folding sheets of musical notation, lightly browned, contemporary glazed green pictorial limp boards, g.e., rather worn and creased, splits to joints, Leipzig, Adam Friedrich Böhme, 1799, 12mo & 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is a rare almanac for women; a sequel to L'Almanach de la Toilette & de la Coëffure des Dames Françoises et Romaines, & du Souvenir à lAngloise of 1777. Comprising: 33pp. of text on diamonds and pearls; engraved plates of hairstyles numbered 25-36; 'Usage du Sécretaire' engraved pages numbered 5-46, lacking pp.1-4, 9/10 (Mardi/Mercredi) & 13/14 (Samedi); 12pp. letterpress list of saints' days. Library Hub & WorldCat record only 2 copies: V & A (mentions illustrations but no pagination given) and BL (33pp. only, no plates).
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