ALMANACH Den Grooten Brugschen Comptoir Almanach voor het jaer MDCC.LXXVII.
A FINELY BOUND AND RARE ALMANACH WITH THE ARMS IN GILT OF QUEEN MARIA-THERESIA OF AUSTRIA. Bruges, 1777. 12mo. (157 x 94 mm), woodcut Arms on title page; printed in red and black throughout; pp. (xvi); early pages interleaved, some contemporary annotations. BOUND WITH: Taryf der Goude en zilvere Specien met hunne Evaluatien volgens de Leeste Placcaeten. Brugge, 1774. Octavo; pp. 48: 62 (2); 48; separate title pages to each section, including: Reduction de l'Argent de France en argent de Lille (1772); woodcut endpieces. Woodcut illustrations of coins current in Europe, with their comparative rates of exchange. Finely bound in mid-18th century red full polished morocco; raised bands, back heavily gilt within compartments; gilt floral design at corners and around edges of each cover; all edges of each cover gilt; inner dentelles gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges gilt. A little scuffed at extremities. With the Arms in gilt of Empress Maria-Theresia of Austria on upper and lower covers; minimal wear at extremities, with some additional wear on upper cover, slightly affecting the Arms. With a delightful manuscript inscription on first free endpaper: Souvenir de Madame de Sellier, a son depart de ma maison au du (?) college 26/28 Avril 1879. Dunkerque. Hypp. Bernaon. Neat printed label under.[Sold together with silver coin showing Arms of the Empress Maria Theresa (1740-1780), AR 20 Kreuzer, Vienna, 1777, silver at 58.3 % (6.68 g). M THERESIA D G R IMP HU BO REG, Bust right of Maria Theresa. Rev. ARCHID AUST DUX BURG CO TYR 1777 X, value in a cartouche below a double-headed eagle, mint-master's initial IC-FA in the field (Mm. Johann August v. Cronberg & Wardein Franz Aicherau). Herinek 859; Scholz 290; Eypeltauer 207; KM 2067.2 ($145 in 2002). Good EF. ] Together £1250Maria Theresia, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740-1780). An attractive, inexperienced and warm-hearted woman, who became the founder of modern Austria, she was also a gifted administrator, with a fighting courage that inspired loyalty.
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