Wahrhaffte Beschreibung, wie es mit der Erbhuldigung ... dem ... Fürsten Herrn Ferdinando dem Vierdten zu Hungarn und Böhaimb Gekrönten König .... Vienna: Johann Jacob Kürner, 1652. Engraved title by Bartholomäus Kilian and 6 engraved folding plates. (A few leaves loose.) Ferdinand IV (1633 -1654) King of the Romans, King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia received a pledge of allegiance on 5 September 1651 in Vienna. The engraved plates depict a procession, interiors and festive meals. [Bound with 6 other works, including:]
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Wahrhaffte Beschreibung, wie es mit der Erbhuldigung ... dem ... Fürsten Herrn Ferdinando dem Vierdten zu Hungarn und Böhaimb Gekrönten König .... Vienna: Johann Jacob Kürner, 1652. Engraved title by Bartholomäus Kilian and 6 engraved folding plates. (A few leaves loose.) Ferdinand IV (1633 -1654) King of the Romans, King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia received a pledge of allegiance on 5 September 1651 in Vienna. The engraved plates depict a procession, interiors and festive meals. [Bound with 6 other works, including:]

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Wahrhaffte Beschreibung, wie es mit der Erbhuldigung ... dem ... Fürsten Herrn Ferdinando dem Vierdten zu Hungarn und Böhaimb Gekrönten König .... Vienna: Johann Jacob Kürner, 1652. Engraved title by Bartholomäus Kilian and 6 engraved folding plates. (A few leaves loose.) Ferdinand IV (1633 -1654) King of the Romans, King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia received a pledge of allegiance on 5 September 1651 in Vienna. The engraved plates depict a procession, interiors and festive meals. [Bound with 6 other works, including:]

Architriumphalis Austriae currus, das ist: Oesterreichischer Ertz- Triumph-Wagen, mit beygesetztem Stamm- und Zeit Register. Vienna: Matthus Cosmerovius, 1658. Engraved title (cropped). Poetic festive tribute on the occasion of the coronation of Emperor Leopold I on August 1, 1658. Augustin and Alois de Backer Bibliotheque de Écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus 5th Serie. Liege, 1839 746; Harold Jantz 982.

VIMINA, Alberto. Wett-Streit. Ein auff dem wegen der Geburt der reich &c. zu Wien gehaltenem Turniere vorgestelltes Schawspiel. Vienna: Matthaeo Rickhes, 1652. Celebration of the birth of Margaret Theresa of Spain (1651-1673), with a tournament and an opera by Alberto Vimina in Vienna. She is the central figure in the famous Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez and subject of many of his later paintings. A later portrait of Margaret by Wolfgang Kilian is tipped in. BL/STC 17th-century German V-394.

Vom ... Begängnuss des Hochzeitlichen beylagers Beeder Kayserlichen Mayestäten Leopoldi dess Ersten... und Margarita, der geborner Infantin aus Hispanien. Vienna: 1666. Engraved title, 3 double-page engraved plates by Melchior Küsel. Spectacular fireworks, celebrating the wedding of Leopold I, (1640-1705), Holy Roman Emperor, and Margaret Theresa (1651-1673), of Spain, illuminated the sky of Vienna in December 1666 and are captured on Küsel's plates. Lotz p. 102; Watanabe 74.

Together 7 works in one volume, 2° (282 and 180mm). Early 18th-century Austrian sheep, upper cover stamped with oval gilt supra-libros. Provenance: Johannes Georg Baron Pichelsdorf and Altenburg (binding) -- Paul and Marianne Gourary. (Of the unlisted works, one lacks the plates, one has a single folding plate, and one contains 9 [of 10?] plates.)