395. Description des Festes données par la Ville de Paris, A l’occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe..., engraved title vignette, vignette and 13 plans and plates, 8 double-page, generally crisp and clean, contemporary armorial calf, gilt, central gilt arms incorporating a sailing boat to covers, rebacked, preserving original rather worn backstrip, recornered, these bumped, rubbed and scratched, [Cohen-de Ricci 288], folio, Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1740.
est. £1500 – £2000
A magnificent fête book commemorating the public festival staged by the city of Paris on August 29th and 30th, 1739, to celebrate the marriage of Princess Louise Elizabeth of France , daughter of Louis XV, to Don Philip, Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, and son of Spain's Philip V. The spectacular was planned and directed by Giovanni Servadoni, one of the leading producers of his age. He had previously designed the fireworks display for which Handel wrote his well-known Music for the Royal Fireworks.