‎Gravelot‎

‎Mariette Pierre Jean . Saint Aubin Augustin de . Dessinateur du modele. Graveur Gravelot . Dessinateur du modele Mullart Loui‎

‎Description des travaux qui ont pr�c�d� accompagn� et suivi la fonte en bronze d'un seul jet de la statue �questre de Louis XV le Bien-Aim� / dress�e sur les m�moires de M. Lempereur. par M. Mariette. 1768 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - Francais Pages 315. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1768. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111008566342

‎Fielding Henry La Place Pierre Antoine de Gravelot Hubert FrancIois‎

‎Histoire de Tom Jones ou L'enfant trouveI 1750 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - fre Pages 364. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1750. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fielding Henry La Place Pierre Antoine de Gravelot Hubert FrancIois‎

‎Histoire de Tom Jones ou L'enfant trouveI 1750‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - fre Pages 304. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1750. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire. 1768‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - French Pages 596. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1768. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Voltaire Clement Pierre Marillier Hubert Francois Gravelot Pierre Duflos‎

‎La pucelle d'Orl�ans: po�me divis� en vingt chants avec des notes 1762‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - French Pages 332. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire 1777‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - French Pages 532. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1777. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire.‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - French Pages 585. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back . This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎William Shakespeare Theobald Lewis Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with . 1762 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - English Pages 437. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111000641239

‎William Shakespeare Theobald Lewis Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with . 1762 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - English Pages 455. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111000641232

‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire. Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - French Pages 589. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back . This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111003134902

‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire 1777 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - French Pages 532. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1777. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111003134887

‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot Jean Francois Bastien‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire. Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - French Pages 549. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back . This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111003134889

‎Voltaire Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire. Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - French Pages 534. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back . This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111003134900

‎William Shakespeare Theobald Lewis Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with . 1762‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - English Pages 439. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎William Shakespeare Theobald Lewis Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with . 1762 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - English Pages 439. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111000641219

‎William Shakespeare Theobald Lewis Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with . 1762‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - English Pages 455. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎William Shakespeare Theobald Lewis Hubert Francois Gravelot‎

‎The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with . 1762‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - English Pages 477. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1762. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Boccace Jean Giovanni Boccaccio and Gravelot Boucher Cochin and Eisen artists‎

‎Le d�cam�ron de Jean Boccace. Traduit par Ant. le Ma�on. Edition originale‎

‎Londres i.e. Paris: Pierre Prault: 1757-1761. 5 volumes bound in blue quarter smooth morocco demi chagrin and marbled boards and endpapers; spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 8vo. 13 x 21 cm. Printed on Dutch laid paper Hollande. A high point of 18th Century book illustration. Cohen p.70; Brunet I p.1007. The imprint is false actually published in Paris by Pierre Prault. Text in French using the same illustrations as the Itlalian text version of the same year. Illustrated throughout with engravings after Gravelot Boucher Cochin and Eisen engraved by Aliamet Baquoy Flipart Legrand Lemire Lempereur and others; including a portrait of Boccaccio by Gravelot; chapter heads vignettes; 110 plates collated 22 per volume most with tissue guards. Leather discolored; wear to spine ends edges and corners; boards rubbed; remnant of book plate front pastedowns; occasional light to moderate foxing even tanning of text pages but plates very clean with a small number in light pencil in upper leading corners of wide margins; occasional light to moderate offset to text pages from vignettes chapter heads. Binding is tight. Ouvrage compos� d'un portrait de 5 frontispices 110 gravures et 97 culs de lampe par Gravelot Boucher et Eisen. Londres (i.e., Paris: Pierre Prault): 1757-1761 hardcover‎

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‎Gravelot Hubert Francois?‎

‎Two unidentified small wash drawings‎

‎N.p. 1738. Each signed possibly in anoher hand lower left in ink "Gravelot". 1 vols. 9.3 x 7.4 cm. The two matted together and framed. Both drawing slightly toned but very good. Each signed possibly in anoher hand lower left in ink "Gravelot". 1 vols. 9.3 x 7.4 cm. The first illustration of a Monkey addressing a Lion and a Wolf is almost certainly from Gravelot's English period 1733-1746 and could well be a preliminary sketch for Gay's FABLES; yet the second drawing depicting a female figure driving a chariot displays an allegorical style reminiscent in style and theme to his illustratons for ICONOLOGIE PAR FIGURES ca. 1789. unknown‎

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‎Hubert Franaois Gravelot Charles Nicolas Cochin Charles Etienne Gaucher‎

‎Iconologie par figures ouTraité complet des allégories emblêmes &c ouvrage utile aux artistes aux amateurs et pouvant servir à l'education des jeunes personnes Volume 1 1791 Hardcover‎

‎2015. Hardcover. New. Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms Lang: - French Vol: - Volume 1 Pages 216. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back 1791. This book is printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Volume 1 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111000306679 ISBN : 9333669140 9789333669146

‎Hubert Franaois Gravelot Charles Nicolas Cochin Charles Etienne Gaucher‎

‎Iconologie par figures ou Traité complet des allégories emblêmes &c ouvrage utile aux artistes aux amateurs et pouvant servir à l'education des jeunes personnes Volume 3 1791 Hardcover‎

‎2015. Hardcover. New. Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms Lang: - French Vol: - Volume 3 Pages 211. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back 1791. This book is printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Volume 3 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111000306681 ISBN : 9333669167 9789333669160

‎Hubert Franaois Gravelot Charles Nicolas Cochin Charles Etienne Gaucher‎

‎Iconologie par figures ou Traité complet des allégories emblêmes &c ouvrage utile aux artistes aux amateurs et pouvant servir à l'education des jeunes personnes Volume 3 1791‎

‎2015. Softcover. New. Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms Lang: - French Vol: - Volume 3 Pages 211. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back 1791. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Volume 3 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : PB1111000306681 ISBN : 9333461167 9789333461160

‎Hubert Franaois Gravelot Charles Nicolas Cochin Charles Etienne Gaucher‎

‎Iconologie par figures ouTraité complet des allégories emblêmes &c ouvrage utile aux artistes aux amateurs et pouvant servir à l'education des jeunes personnes Volume 1 1791‎

‎2015. Softcover. New. Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms Lang: - French Vol: - Volume 1 Pages 216. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back 1791. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Volume 1 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : PB1111000306679 ISBN : 9333461000 9789333461009

‎LOTTERY ALMANAC GRAVELOT Hubert Francois 1699 1773‎

‎Almanach utile et agr�able de la loterie de l'Ecole Royale Militaire pour l'ann�e 1759 . Enrichi de quatre-vingt-dix figures en taille douce qui pourront servir de devises‎

‎Amsterdam & Paris: chez Prault p�re and Laurent-Fr. Le Clerc 1759. 16mo 113 x 62 mm. viii 97 1 pp. folding table counted as 4 pages. Ninety-one etchings after Gravelot including allegorical frontispiece signed by N. Le Mire and dated 1758 and 90 etched plates of girls and women engaged in various activities of daily life. Text within double rule border throughout. Small marginal loss to pl. 34 pl. 90 with an old crease from paper flaw very occasional very slight soiling overall in fine condition. Contemporary French red morocco covers paneled with triple gilt fillets spine gold-tooled and -lettered green gilt dominot� endpapers with repeating star pattern; modern morocco two-part pull-off case by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons 1851-1925 armorial bookplate. The first French lottery almanac and the single most abundantly illustrated eighteenth-century French almanac with 91 etchings designed by Gravelot who also wrote the epigrammatic quatrains accompanying each etching. Gravelot's series of delightful etchings of little girls teenage girls and young women busy with pastimes or chores or shown at moments of emotional intensity was intended as is explained in the preface to represent the spirit of France while encouraging its citizens to play the new national lottery established in 1757 to finance construction of the Ecole royale militaire a military academy founded by Louis XV in 1751 to train 500 young noblemen from impoverished families. Besides the usual calendar and a 12-month table of gains and losses the text contains a history and description of the new lottery and its Italian antecedents explanations of its principles and mechanics and a guide to playing advantageously using "mathematical reasoning." The lottery for which bureaus were to be established throughout France was planned to last for 30 years with monthly drawings. It was an early form of today's Lotto. Tickets containing numbers from 1 to 90 were spun in a "wheel of fortune" pictured in the frontispiece from which five winning tickets were selected. One had the right to place bets on up to five numbers at once the variously sized bets being provided with arcane names an extrait for one number ambe for two terne for three etc. The pictures' role was to help the lottery player choose his numbers functioning somewhat in the manner of the traditional Italian smorfia but without the exclusive focus on dreams and portents which are referred to in the preface as an optional method of inspiration. Like the lottery itself the concept of thematic images linked to lottery numbers was based on the Italian model as explained in the preface and the historic chapter but while in Italy each city chose their own motifs - in Rome it was the arts in Naples animals in Genoa flowers and in Venice trades - for France it was decided without hesitation that "la galanterie" was a natural fit for the nation p. iv. One might read a rather Freudian or Jungian motivation into the presumably subconscious choice by the lottery committee of the very opposite of a warlike theme - sweet young girls domesticity and intimations of intimacy for the financing of a military school. Whether this was Gravelot's idea is unknown but his contribution was major: as stated in the publishers' preface and in his own Avertissement on the penultimate verso he designed the figures and wrote the verses. The plates were etched by No�l Le Mire 1724-1801 "one of the most prominent engravers of the 18th century . whose best work was in his book illustrations after Boucher Cochin Gravelot Eisen Gravelot Monnet Moreau and others" Thieme-Becker 23:27. The frontispiece depicts blindfolded fate drawing tickets from the "wheel of fortune" and dropping them into a crowd of eager ladies and gentlemen. The first 28 plates portray young girls and the rest adolescents and young women. Each etched scene is set within a gracious rococo frame with cartouches for the title the number and at the foot Gravelot's rhyming quatrain. Shown are girls at play with dolls or heaven forbid spinning tops with the boys Gravelot disapproves learning their ABC's being slapped by their mother or governess for laziness teaching the dog to dance playing badminton alone on a swing pushed by a brother crying as the cat makes off with the pet sparrow painting dreamily at a table and even building a house of cards. As she ages the teenage girl is given more work - she embroiders knits studies but also prepares for parties flirts gossips is jealous . Many of the plates tell stories. Portraits of the now adult young women include a reader the quatrain warns to choose one's books as one does one's friends: wisely a gambler a coquette a "savante" surrounded by books a dreamer personifications of boredom and religious devotion and moving into another sphere working women shown gardening milking cows harvesting grapes spinning cooking sewing doing hair selling knickknacks etc. Even a laundress and a housemaid are shown the latter making a bed and admonished to be "flattering supple patient and never to tell certain secrets." The final plate depicts fatefully a wedding and there is nothing left to show the bride having ceased to be the property of la Galante France and become that of her husband. This copy is in very fine condition. The edition is a notorious rarity. There are two copies at the Biblioth�que nationale de France of which at least one is incomplete a defective copy at the Biblioth�que Ste. Genevi�ve and copies at the Morgan Library and the British Library. The Morgan also has four of Gravelot's original drawings for the almanac and Houghton Library has six others. The almanac had only this one year of issue. The plates were re-issued once in an edition of Les Jeux de la petite Thalie Paris: Desnos s.d. which is almost as scarce as this volume. Because of its rarity this almanac is far less known than Gravelot's 17-volume Almanach iconologique which contained like most French almanacs 12 plates per volume. John Grand-Carteret who devoted 5 full columns to the edition knew of only the Baron Pichon copy. The collector and amateur Savigny de Moncorps included this almanac in his list of twenty most "absolutely desirable almanacs" of which it is the earliest and the fr�res Goncourt called it a trifle condescendingly "un vrai petit bijou et joujou" which perfectly suited Gravelot's talents. Inventaire du fonds fran�ais graveurs du XVIIIe si�cle vol. 10 Gravelot 983-1073 and vol. 14 Lemire 159-248; Grand-Carteret Les Almanachs fran�ais 277; Cohen-de Ricci Guide de l'amateur de livres � gravures du XVIIIe si�cle 1912 col. 28-29; Savigny de Moncorps Coup d'oeil sur les almanachs illustr�s du XVIIIe si�cle. Deuxi�me �dition 1891 pp. 29-35. chez Prault p�re [and] Laurent-Fr. Le Clerc unknown‎

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‎Petity Jean Raymond de Louis XV Gravelot Gabriel de Saint Aubin‎

‎Etrennes fran�oises d�di�es � la ville de Paris; pour l'ann�e jubilaire du r�gne de Louis le Bien-Aim�‎

‎Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1766. A PRISTINE COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION of this commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Louis XV's coronation. 68 pp plus 8 fine full-page etched plates complete: two plates depicting heraldic devices: five plates by Chenu Duclos and Littret after Gabriel de Saint-Aubin with allegorical medallions and engraved text depicting events from Louis' rule; and one full-page allegorical plate. Printed on very fine thick laid paper with ample margins. The impressions of the etchings are outstanding. 4to. Original paper covers. ENTIRELY UNCUT 26.5 x 20 cm. A couple of leaves with very small faint old marginal stains else FINE AND BRIGHT and incredibly fresh. Cohen-De Ricci 794. Very rare in this state. <br/><br/> Pierre-Guillaume Simon unknown‎

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