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Title: Newspapers, Nouvelles Extraordinaires, 1721 | Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits. Complete year (1721), Leiden, A. de la Font, 1721, ca 400 pp.
Description: Marbled paper pasted on boards without a spine. Binding broken. 1 hinge broken. With a manuscript dedication in ink on the front pastedown to a Madame de Ville. A good copy.A compilation of all issues from the year 1721 of the Leiden-published, French-language newspaper Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits (known colloquially as the Gazette de Leyde). Nouvelles Extraordinaires was the most important newspaper of record in Europe between the late-17th- to late-18th century, covering international politics, diplomacy, and commerce in the lingua franca of the time.These issues bear the header Avec Privilege de Nos Seigneurs Les Etats de Hollande & de West-Frise with a publication footer that reads Jouxte la Copie de Leide. The first issue in the book was published on 10 January 1721; the final issue was published on 21 December 1721. The compiler pasted in leaves of the second-most-important foreign gazette, the Gazette d'Amsterdam, for two dates: 26 August 1721, and 28 October 1721, additions presumably meant to supplement coverage for major international events.B1573 - kranten - vroeg 18e eeuw - belangrijkste krant Europa en Nederland - Leidse drukker - gazette Leiden - gazette Amsterdam - 1721

Keywords: French|Newspapers