Louis XV. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNT BOOK: "ETAT ET MENU GÉNÉRAL. DE LA DÉPENSE ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE AUX DENIERS DU ROY, ANNÉE 1758", GIVING DETAILS OF THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE OF LOUIS XV FOR THE YEAR c. 360 pages, 4to (240 x 185mm.), in a neat scribal hand throughout, an official copy, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt with the arms of Louis XV in centre of sides, spine gilt in compartments, 1758; together with a document of 1785 signed on behalf of Marie Antoinette, appointing a spit-turner for her kitchen, an eighteenth-century English recipe book, an 8-page manuscript apparently by Grimod de la Reynière, 4 items, together with coupons for meat issued during the Siege of Paris and related engravings
Louis XV. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNT BOOK: "ETAT ET MENU GÉNÉRAL. DE LA DÉPENSE ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE AUX DENIERS DU ROY, ANNÉE 1758", GIVING DETAILS OF THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE OF LOUIS XV FOR THE YEAR c. 360 pages, 4to (240 x 185mm.), in a neat scribal hand throughout, an official copy, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt with the arms of Louis XV in centre of sides, spine gilt in compartments, 1758; together with a document of 1785 signed on behalf of Marie Antoinette, appointing a spit-turner for her kitchen, an eighteenth-century English recipe book, an 8-page manuscript apparently by Grimod de la Reynière, 4 items, together with coupons for meat issued during the Siege of Paris and related engravings
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