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CARLO EMMANUELE III, KING OF SARDINIA -- La Sontuosa Illuminazione della Città di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali Maestà di Carlo Emmanuele... e di Elisabetta Teresa Principessa... di Lorena. Turin: Giovanni Battista Chais, 1737.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (365 x 230mm.). In Italian and French. Engraved frontispiece, letterpress title in Italian, printed in red and black, letterpress section title in French, 14 engraved plates, comprising ten double-page and four folding, by George Caspar Prenner, G. A. Belmondo, J. L. Daudet, C. Bianchi and Antoine Herisset, all on guards. (Lower left margin of plates 5 and 10 just trimmed, light browning, occasional marginal soiling.) Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt (corners and spine repaired, sections of original spine laid down). Provenance: The Marchesi di Romagnano and The Marchesi di Virle (armorial bookplate); unidentified 19th-century Italian woodcut armorial bookplate of a count.
FIRST EDITION of a work describing the procession through Turin of Carlo Emmanuele II and his bride, Elizabeth of Lorraine, on the night of April 21, 1737. The text is divided into two parts, one entirely in Italian and the other in French. The engravings show the illuminations of various buildings and specially constructed arches and statues for the event, as well as the firework machine depicting the sources of the River Po, which was probably designed by Giovanni Battista Borra. The festivities ended with a public exhibition of the Holy Shroud on 4th May, also described in the text. Berlin Kat. 3072; Lipperheide Si 44; Vinet 600.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (365 x 230mm.). In Italian and French. Engraved frontispiece, letterpress title in Italian, printed in red and black, letterpress section title in French, 14 engraved plates, comprising ten double-page and four folding, by George Caspar Prenner, G. A. Belmondo, J. L. Daudet, C. Bianchi and Antoine Herisset, all on guards. (Lower left margin of plates 5 and 10 just trimmed, light browning, occasional marginal soiling.) Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt (corners and spine repaired, sections of original spine laid down). Provenance: The Marchesi di Romagnano and The Marchesi di Virle (armorial bookplate); unidentified 19th-century Italian woodcut armorial bookplate of a count.
FIRST EDITION of a work describing the procession through Turin of Carlo Emmanuele II and his bride, Elizabeth of Lorraine, on the night of April 21, 1737. The text is divided into two parts, one entirely in Italian and the other in French. The engravings show the illuminations of various buildings and specially constructed arches and statues for the event, as well as the firework machine depicting the sources of the River Po, which was probably designed by Giovanni Battista Borra. The festivities ended with a public exhibition of the Holy Shroud on 4th May, also described in the text. Berlin Kat. 3072; Lipperheide Si 44; Vinet 600.