CHASTEUIL-GALLAUP, Pierre de. Discours sur les arcs triomphaux dressés en la Ville d'Aix, à l'heureuse arrivée de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne, & de Monseigneur le Duc de Berry. Aix-en-Provence: Jean Adibert, 1701. 2° (349 x 248mm). 4 engraved plates after Jean Claude Cundier, one double-page, 2 folding. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (ends of spine chipped, some wear).
The entry into Aix on 5 March 1701 of two grandsons of Louis XIV, Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy, and Charles, Duke of Berry, on their way to attend the coronation of their brother as Philip V of Spain. The etchings are very fine representations of the arches erected for their visit. Brunet points out the "recherche curieuse" on the troubadours and customs in Provence. Berlin Katalog 3007; Brunet II:754; Ruggieri 535; Vinet 511.
CHASTEUIL-GALLAUP, Pierre de. Discours sur les arcs triomphaux dressés en la Ville d'Aix, à l'heureuse arrivée de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne, & de Monseigneur le Duc de Berry. Aix-en-Provence: Jean Adibert, 1701. 2° (349 x 248mm). 4 engraved plates after Jean Claude Cundier, one double-page, 2 folding. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (ends of spine chipped, some wear).
The entry into Aix on 5 March 1701 of two grandsons of Louis XIV, Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy, and Charles, Duke of Berry, on their way to attend the coronation of their brother as Philip V of Spain. The etchings are very fine representations of the arches erected for their visit. Brunet points out the "recherche curieuse" on the troubadours and customs in Provence. Berlin Katalog 3007; Brunet II:754; Ruggieri 535; Vinet 511.
