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PARIS - Description des Festes donnes la ville de Paris, l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-lisabeth de France & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Admiral d'Espagne. Paris: Le Mercier, 1740.
Broadsheet (625 x 464 mm). Engraved vignette on title, large engraved vignette with a view of Paris, 13 engraved plates by Blondel, 8 double-page. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, central arms of the city of Paris (Olivier 2121 no. 3), spine elaborately gilt in compartments with fleurs-de-lys ornament, gilt inner dentelles, (slightly bumped).
A FINE COPY of this famous feste book, as usual plate VI omitted in numbering, therefore plate VIII repeated.
Broadsheet (625 x 464 mm). Engraved vignette on title, large engraved vignette with a view of Paris, 13 engraved plates by Blondel, 8 double-page. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, central arms of the city of Paris (Olivier 2121 no. 3), spine elaborately gilt in compartments with fleurs-de-lys ornament, gilt inner dentelles, (slightly bumped).
A FINE COPY of this famous feste book, as usual plate VI omitted in numbering, therefore plate VIII repeated.