FESTIVAL BOOK. Description of the festivities... - Lot 5

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FESTIVAL BOOK. Description of the festivities... - Lot 5 - Osenat

FESTIVAL BOOK. Description of the festivities given by the city of Paris, on the occasion of the marriage of Madame Louise-Elisabeth of France, & of Dom Philippe, infant & grand admiral of Spain, on the twenty-ninth & thirtieth of August one thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. G. Le Mercier, 1740. large in-folio, (2)-22 pp. garnet morocco, spine with nerves and fleur-de-lis spine, gilt fleur-de-lis lace framing the boards with fleur-de-lis in the corners and gilt coat of arms in the center, gilt gilded in the center, ornamented necks, gilded inner lace, gilded edges; binding a little worn with headpieces, spines and corners restored (period binding). FIRST EDITION. one of the most beautiful holiday books published in the 18th century. This luxurious publishing enterprise This luxurious publishing enterprise was commissioned by the provost of the merchants MICHEL- ÉTIENNE TURGOT (also instigator of the famous of the famous map of Paris) to keep the memory of the festivities he had organized in Paris on the occasion of the marriage by proxy of Madame Première, Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XV, with Philippe de Bourbon, second son of Philippe V of Spain, therefore great-grandson of Louis XIV, future duke of Parma. Partly conceived by the writer Charles-Alexandre Salley, secretary of the count of Maurepas, these festivities took place over two days and required the erection of several ephemeral constructions, notably at the western point of the Ile de la Cité: they included among others, on August 29, 1739, a naval joust, an illumination with a nautical parade and fireworks, on the Seine, and a ball the following evening, at the Hôtel de ville. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION ENGRAVED ON COPPER: 13 plates out of text, 8 of which are double-page by Jacques-François Blondel after his own drawings and those of the architects Jacques-Ange Gabriel and Giovanni Niccoló Servandoni, the latter also a painter and decorator; 2 vignettes in the text, one by Pierre Soubeyran after Edmé Bouchardon (coat of arms of the city of Paris), the other by Jacques Rigaud (scene of nautical initial repeated in the text. BINDING WITH THE ARMS OF THE CITY OF PARIS (iron no. 3 of OHR plate no. 2121).

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