MENESTRIER, Claude François (1631-1705). Traité des Tournois, Joustes, Carrousels, et autres et autres spectacles public. Lyons: Jacques Muguet, 1669. 4° (243 x 180mm), 21 half-page engravings, some signed by Claude Derbage (cancels C2-C3 included in preliminaries, occasional scattered spotting, very faint water stain to bottom margin), contemporary calf, gilt spine (wear to sides). Provenance: Lord Walpole of Wolterton (bookplate). Benezit IV 461; Brunet III 1624-1625; Graesse IV 487. FIRST EDITION, the Walpole copy, of this early work on the staging of public festivals. Menestrier was responsible for arranging some of the most dramatic of these during the reign of Louis XIV, most notably on his visit to Lyons in 1658.