1710. Royal ALMANAC - Lot 4

1710. Royal ALMANAC for the year 1710 (…). Paris: Laurent d’Houry, (1710). 8vo, ivory vellum, plain spine (contemporary binding). Blank pages inserted between the calendar pages with handwritten annotations, providing information on the Court and several military events (the Duchess of Burgundy’s childbirth, the death of the Prince of Condé, the end of the siege of Douai, the marriage of the Duke of Berry to Mademoiselle, daughter of the Duke of Orléans, the birth of the Duchess of Lorraine’s child, Marshal de Villars appointed governor of Metz; The King conferred the Order of the Holy Spirit and the Grand Cordon of the Order of Saint Louis upon the Count of Albergottie).