Lot n° 126
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1500 - 3000
EUR
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Result
: 1 000EUR
[Livre de fêtes, 1740]. Description des festes données par l - Lot 126
[Livre de fêtes, 1740]. Description des festes données par la ville de Paris, à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe, infant & grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième et trentième août mil sept cent trente-neuf. À Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P.G. Lemercier, 1740, in folio, [1] f., 22 p., 13 pl, contemporary marbled havana calf, 10-rib spine, red title page, fleurons, stars and framing double gilded fillet, coat of arms of the city of Paris stamped with small gilded iron in the center of the boards, gilded framing of a frieze of fleurs-de-lis alternating with stylized flowers, fleurs-de-lis in the spandrels (restorations, spine replaced in the taste of the period, binding rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed, spines and corners rubbed. (restorations, spine replaced in period style, binding rubbed, edges and corners worn or dulled, endpapers renewed; clumsy restorations to worm tracts in margins, without affecting text, tiny att. to margin of vat of pl. 3 to 5, small worm tract uncovered, fine wetness in margin of last two plates, scattered spotting, browning).
First edition.
13 plates, including 8 double plates, after drawings by Blondel, Gabriel, Salley and copper-engraved by Jacques-François Blondel.
Copper-engraved title vignette after Edmé Bouchardon, engraved by Pierre Soubeyran; entablature designed and copper-engraved by Jacques Rigaud of the Representation de la joûte qui s'est faite sur la rivière de Seine, le jour de la feste donnée par la ville de Paris (...).
(Cohen-Portalis, 149-150).
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