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Etrennes intéressantes des quatre parties du monde, contenant entr’autres matières les noms et demeures des députés du corps législatif de France & l’emplacement des troupes. Pour l’an VIe de la République (Années 1797–1798).

Paris: chez Langlois fils... Demoraine, 1797.

Collation: 32mo: 64 leaves of text, pp. [1] 2–127 [1]. Sewn as a single quire, first 32 leaves signed A–D⁸, the conjugate leaves unsigned.
Plates: 2 folding leaves of plates containing 8 woodcut maps (printed on a single sheet and bound to form foldouts front and back).
Condition: 96 x 58mm. Worn, corner of pp. 11/12 torn away without loss.
Binding: Original block printed decorated  wrapper pasted over the outer pages. Worn, wrapper detached.
References: Grand-Carteret 599; not in Sabin.
Price: £500

First edition.

¶ A single issue of this rare miniature almanack which ran from 1777–1854. After the calendar and 5 pages on cosmology the ‘Description des quatre parties du monde’ occupies pp. 42–52 including a section on America. This is followed by details of the French state, legislature and army, and then ‘Les initiés, pour faire suite au tombeau de Jacques Molai’, pp. 105–126. At the end are advertisements of citizen Courtois, who sells bandages, and the pharmacist Steinacher. The maps show Europe, France, Africa, Asia, and North and South America.

No copies of this issue are found in OCLC or RLIN, which locate only the following single issues: [17–?], Berkeley; [1784] and 1788, Harvard; 1796, Cleveland Public Library; [1807?], New York Public Library; [1812?], Florida State University.