LOUIS XV – Relation de l'arrivée du Roi au Havre de Grace le 19 septembre 1749 et des fêtes qui se sont données à cette occasion. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guérin et Louis-François Delatour, 1753.
LOUIS XV – Relation de l'arrivée du Roi au Havre de Grace le 19 septembre 1749 et des fêtes qui se sont données à cette occasion. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guérin et Louis-François Delatour, 1753.
An attractive livre de fêtes, bound in red morocco with the arms of Louis XV, 1st Duke of Westminster's copy. After the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, the king expressed the wish to visit a French port, and chose Le Havre, where a ‘naval battle’ was organised with manoeuvres carried out by 400 sailors. The plates show the maritime displays in honour of his visit, as well as a fine illumination of Le Havre’s main avenue, in good, strong impressions. The fine binding was made in the workshop of the King’s library. Cohen-de Ricci 868; Ruggieri 581.
Broadsheet (627 x 470mm). Title, dedication + 16pp. Engraved title vignette, head- and tail-pieces by Slodtz, six double-page plates by Le Bas after Descamps (occasional light marginal spotting, closed marginal tear to one plate). Contemporary red morocco with large gilt arms of Louis XV at centre of covers [Olivier 2495, fer 10], gilt borders with grapes and birds, fleur-de-lis corner pieces, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt (rebacked retaining old spine label, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-99; armorial bookplate).
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LOUIS XV – Relation de l'arrivée du Roi au Havre de Grace le 19 septembre 1749 et des fêtes qui se sont données à cette occasion. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guérin et Louis-François Delatour, 1753.
An attractive livre de fêtes, bound in red morocco with the arms of Louis XV, 1st Duke of Westminster's copy. After the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, the king expressed the wish to visit a French port, and chose Le Havre, where a ‘naval battle’ was organised with manoeuvres carried out by 400 sailors. The plates show the maritime displays in honour of his visit, as well as a fine illumination of Le Havre’s main avenue, in good, strong impressions. The fine binding was made in the workshop of the King’s library. Cohen-de Ricci 868; Ruggieri 581.
Broadsheet (627 x 470mm). Title, dedication + 16pp. Engraved title vignette, head- and tail-pieces by Slodtz, six double-page plates by Le Bas after Descamps (occasional light marginal spotting, closed marginal tear to one plate). Contemporary red morocco with large gilt arms of Louis XV at centre of covers [Olivier 2495, fer 10], gilt borders with grapes and birds, fleur-de-lis corner pieces, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt (rebacked retaining old spine label, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-99; armorial bookplate).
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