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[TRONÇON, Jean]. L'Entrée triomphante de leurs maiestez Louis XIV... et Marie Thérèse d'Austriche... dans la ville de Paris. Paris: François Lecointe for Pierre le Petit, Thomas Joly & Louis Bilane, 1662.
2° (448 x 300mm). Engraved frontispiece by François Chauveau, engraved portrait of Louis XIV by Nicolas Poilly after Mignard, engraved dedication leaf, 21 engraved plates (14 double-page) by Jean Marot and Chauveau after Lepautre. (Some marginal soiling, small tear to lower blank margin of frontispiece.) Contemporary French mottled calf (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Hakon Carlheim ? (signature on frontispiece).
Two issues of this work are recorded by Brunet: one dated 1662, titled as above with 18 plates and a second dated 1665, titled Histoire de la triomphante entrée..., with 22 plates. This copy may well be an intermediate issue. Louis married Marie Thérèse of Austria on 9 June 1660 and on 26 August brought his bride to Paris, where they were greeted with great pomp and circumstance. Cf. Brunet II, 1004.
2° (448 x 300mm). Engraved frontispiece by François Chauveau, engraved portrait of Louis XIV by Nicolas Poilly after Mignard, engraved dedication leaf, 21 engraved plates (14 double-page) by Jean Marot and Chauveau after Lepautre. (Some marginal soiling, small tear to lower blank margin of frontispiece.) Contemporary French mottled calf (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Hakon Carlheim ? (signature on frontispiece).
Two issues of this work are recorded by Brunet: one dated 1662, titled as above with 18 plates and a second dated 1665, titled Histoire de la triomphante entrée..., with 22 plates. This copy may well be an intermediate issue. Louis married Marie Thérèse of Austria on 9 June 1660 and on 26 August brought his bride to Paris, where they were greeted with great pomp and circumstance. Cf. Brunet II, 1004.