Precious Almanac: Cute, Curious And Useful New Year's Gifts For The Year 1785 Decorated Red Morocco

Charming little Almanac in richly decorated red morocco from the Louis XVI period: "Etrennes Mignones", curious and useful for the Year 1785, in 18 format, richly decorated covers with a valiant heart in a very decorated oval cartouche with a deployed knot in the purest Louis XVI style, and a richly ornamented frame, on both covers, smooth spine decorated with rosettes and gilded title, interior friezes, blue silk guards. Beautiful small edition decorated with a map of France and the surroundings of Paris, folding out and containing a description of Paris and its most beautiful monuments, with historical features and events related to each of these monuments, to serve as a continuation of the curious notion of France, begun in 1784 / A State of the entry duties of Paris on food; a Treatise on the Cubation of Areostats, with Tables to find it easily; a Secret useful to humanity, and a state of the fairs of France, &c... &c.... In Paris at N. Crapart, Bookseller, place Saint-Michel & CJC Durand, rue du Foin Saint-Jacques, at the Griffon. M.DCC. XXXV. (1785).