[LANGUEDOC]. Minutes of the Assembly of the Lords of the Est - Lot 197

[LANGUEDOC]. Minutes of the Assembly of the Lords of the Estates-General of the Province of Languedoc. Historical document, featuring a beautiful title vignette bearing the coat of arms of the Estates of Languedoc and bound in a contemporary binding. Montpellier, Jean Martel l’Aîné, 1778. Large quarto, cream vellum, smooth spine with a beige half-leather title label, four lace-up clasps on the covers, red edges. 3 unnumbered folios and 381 pages - 1 unnumbered folio and 22 pages - 1 unnumbered folio and 14 pages - 1 unnumbered folio, 22 pp. (table of contents) and 4 unnumbered folios; headbands, initials, and tailpieces engraved on wood. A few stains on the binding, closing laces missing, partial loss on the title label, ink bleed on the folio preceding the table of contents, a few foxing spots and browned pages, a small water stain on the lower margin of pages 21 and 22 of the table of contents, tears on the last two leaves with a loss on the first and restoration with adhesive tape on the second. Minutes of the Estates General of Languedoc, held in Montpellier from October 29 to December 7, 1778. The two reports that follow, with separate pagination, concern the seneschalships of Carcassonne and Toulouse (December 1 and 2, 1778). Rare handwritten annotations in ink in the margins of the leaves.