MANUSCRIT]. Gazette de Paris of what is most interesting in - Lot 90

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MANUSCRIT]. Gazette de Paris of what is most interesting in - Lot 90
MANUSCRIT]. Gazette de Paris of what is most interesting in the year 1758. With prints, vignettes and portraits suitable for the subjects detailed therein, to make the said Gazette more favourable, and more amusing, for the year 1758. In French, manuscript on paper France, 18th c. (after 1758, ca. 1760?) 600 pp. [erroneously inscribed 700, foliation error], interleaved manuscript and thus with increased pagination of blank leaves not counted in the pagination, cursive writing in brown ink, justification in red ink. Bound in green paperback, smooth spine, red leather title-piece with gilt lettering: "Gazette de Paris. 1758", red edges. It should be noted that some pages show watermarks of portraits, as if prints had once appeared opposite the manuscript pages (see for example p. 79, p. 451 and passim). Dimensions: 115 x 190 mm This manuscript is quite curious: it is presented in the form of a "Gazette" volume, in the spirit of a Gazette de France or other newspaper or almanac for a given year. But when reading it, one realizes that the author - anonymous - compiles a certain number of diverse elements ranging from highlights and events (Nouvelle de Paris mois de janvier 1758/Nouvelle de Paris mois de mars 1758...), excerpts from various texts, historical notes on characters (for example Calvin, Luther, or René Descartes, Esprit Fléchier, Nicolas Copernicus et alia) or places (for example, the Château de Bicestre) and various historical and moral considerations. The events and chronicles of the months of 1758 would benefit from being studied. At the end of the volume we find: Catalogue des estampes, des vignettes et des portraits qui sont dans laditte Gazette de France de la presente année 1758. It should be noted that these prints do not appear in the present manuscript.
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