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MANUSCRIPT of the STABLES of PHILIPPE EGALITÉ.
See original version (French)
85
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MANUSCRIPT of the STABLES of PHILIPPE EGALITÉ.
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,000
Voluntary lot
Description
MANUSCRIPT of the STABLES of PHILIPPE EGALITÉ.
STABLES OF HIS MOST SERENISSIMUS HIGHNESS, His Grace the Duke of Chartes. Account of income and expenditure incurred in the running of the said stables during the year 1780.
Small folio (43 x 27 cm), (12) folios and 4 folios, including 2 blank pages, on laid paper with watermark (2 sewn quires mounted on tabs). Green half-shagreen Bradel binding with very small modern corners, red cardboard covers with gilt title, binding signed Yves Dagonet (some soiling and pinholes, particularly on the first folio, some soiling along the edges).
Description:
A fine, very well-written manuscript ‘by Monsieur Seguin’, which was undoubtedly intended to serve as a kind of annual financial statement.
The title page is framed and calligraphically inscribed with the full coat of arms (featuring cannons) of the Duke of Chartres, Louis-Philippe d’Orléans (1747–1793), known as Philippe Égalité, great-great-grandson of Louis XIII, of the House of Orléans.
Highly interesting and informative detailed accounts and inventories, with precise figures and names, presented in tables, with calligraphic headings, all in fine, precise and legible handwriting in sepia ink.
Covering his stables and horses in Paris, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Germain, Versailles and ‘for the Arquebuse’, with pages on various types of supplies, including medicines, and extraordinary expenses…
HIPPOLOGY. HORSE. VETERINARY
See original version (French)
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