BINDING WITH PAINTED MEDALLIONS UNDER MICA. - Calendario... Lot 50

BINDING WITH PAINTED MEDALLIONS UNDER MICA. - Calendario per la real corte. Nella reale stamparia de Torino, (1785). In-16, 65 x 103 mm, 88 pp, green morocco, gilt die-cut framing thread, gilt inset frame with red metallized paper listel, central oval frame of metal fillets and pearls containing two painted gallant scenes (28 x 36 mm), under mica, dominoté paper lining and endpapers, gilt edges (Ep. binding). Fold-out postal chart from 1785. Frontispiece portrait of Victor-Amédée III, King of Sardinia. BEAUTIFUL BINDING for this Turin worldly almanac listing Princes of Europe, members of the clergy, ministers, members of the Court etc... up to members of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Damaged mica covers.