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[ANNUAIRE MILITAIRE] État du régiment des Gardes Françoises du Roi, par rang de compagnie, & suivant l'ancienneté de Messieurs les officiers & sergens
[MILITARY REGISTER] State of the Regiment of the King's French Guards, by Company Rank, and According to the Seniority of the Officers and Sergeants]
G. Lamesle|Paris 1765|7.8 x 11.4 cm|Relié
First edition (cf. Grand-Carteret, Almanachs, 158; Saffroy, Almanachs et annuaires, 306.)
Interleaved from page 46, with a few small spots of foxing.
Full old red morocco, smooth spine panelled and decorated with fleurons, triple gilt fillet border on covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt roll-tooled edges, all edges gilt, contemporary binding.
Minor rubbing to the upper cover and a tiny hole to one joint.
Copy from the libraries of Raymond-Jean-François Laplagne-Barris (1786–1857), magistrate and Peer of France, and of heraldist Olivier Le Bas, with their bookplates pasted on the front pastedown and first endpaper.
€750