359. Castaldi (Giuseppe) Tributi ossequisi della fedeliss. Citta di Napoli...delle Nozze Reali del...Carlo Secondo. Re della Spagne, con...Maria Luisa Borbone, engraved title, huge engraving of the palazzo with tournement, portrait, 5 double plates of the procession, 28 plates, mostly engraved, many within typographic borders, and one extra leaf of text within typographic borders, lacking 2 leaves of text (pp. 73-6; sig.T), original vellum, gilt, rather soiled, front joint split, Garrick bookplates, Naples, Castaldi, [1680]; sold not subjct to return.
est. £500 – £750
Most of the plates are emblematic; see Praz p.299 calling for only a portrait and 20 plates , and citing only a copy at Olschki in 1946. We were able to trace only four others, 3 in Italy(Naples x2, Modena) and the Piot copy in the V&A.