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VITALE, Pietro. La felicita in trono sul'arrivo acclamatione, e coronatione delle Reali Maesta di Vittorio Amedeo duca di Savoja, e di Anna d'Orleans da Francia, ed Inghilterra Re' e Regina di Sicilia Gerusalemme e Cipro. Palermo: Agostino Epiro, 1714.
2° (334 x 238mm). Engraved frontispiece of the arrival of Vittorio Amedeo and Anne d'Orleans by Francesco Cichè after Antonio Grano and 19 plates by Cichè, most after Paolo Amato, 17 folding, one on two sheets. Ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Spotting on title, occasional staining and thumb-soiling of text, 8 plates cleanly torn and with neat laminated repairs, two plates slightly stained.) Old vellum over pasteboard, modern lettering on spine, red speckled edges (recased with new endpapers). Provenance: Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, Feltrinelli sale part VI, Christie's London, 2 June 1998, lot 1360).
Vittorio Amedeo, duke of Savoy, became king of Sicily in 1713 when the island was given to Savoy under the Treaty of Utrecht. This finely illustrated volume recounts the festivities occasioned by Vittorio Amedeo and his wife Anne's first visit to their new principality and their coronation at Palermo. The plates depict the royal calvacade arriving in Palermo, four of the six triumphal arches erected around the city, the adornment of palazzi, and the celebratory fireworks. RARE. Not in Vinet, Berlin Kat. or Lipperheide.
2° (334 x 238mm). Engraved frontispiece of the arrival of Vittorio Amedeo and Anne d'Orleans by Francesco Cichè after Antonio Grano and 19 plates by Cichè, most after Paolo Amato, 17 folding, one on two sheets. Ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Spotting on title, occasional staining and thumb-soiling of text, 8 plates cleanly torn and with neat laminated repairs, two plates slightly stained.) Old vellum over pasteboard, modern lettering on spine, red speckled edges (recased with new endpapers). Provenance: Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, Feltrinelli sale part VI, Christie's London, 2 June 1998, lot 1360).
Vittorio Amedeo, duke of Savoy, became king of Sicily in 1713 when the island was given to Savoy under the Treaty of Utrecht. This finely illustrated volume recounts the festivities occasioned by Vittorio Amedeo and his wife Anne's first visit to their new principality and their coronation at Palermo. The plates depict the royal calvacade arriving in Palermo, four of the six triumphal arches erected around the city, the adornment of palazzi, and the celebratory fireworks. RARE. Not in Vinet, Berlin Kat. or Lipperheide.
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