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Sixty-three etchings by Georg Christoph Eimmart after David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, who signed dedication. The etchings comprise an added title in Latin (with port. of Charles XI) and 62 plates depicting the tournament, fireworks, banquet, etc. Forty of the drawings were made in 1673 but the work was laid aside until 1685. See dedication, and Sjoblöm. ; Sjoblöm, A. David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Ownership inscription on front pastedown of C.R. Berch, who received the book in 1718 from his uncle Johan Skutenhielm (Carl Reinhold Berch, 1706-1777, Swedish official and author). A 2nd inscription above records that in 1739 in Stockholm, Berch gave the book to Taraval (Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval, 1701-1750, painter to the king of Sweden). Inscription on added etched title to Taraval's son, the architect and engraver Louis Gustave Taraval, 1738-1794. Stamp on t.p. verso of: Huzard, de l'Institut (cf. Jean Baptiste Huzard, 1755-1838, member of the Institut de France). In upper left-hand corner of front pastedown is 19th-century bookplate of: Pierre, marquis de Luppe. ; Binding: mottled goatskin, spine and edges of boards tooled in gilt (gilt now largely wanting). Page edges sprinkled black. ; Mounted on back free endpaper and pastedown of Getty copy are three etchings from Charles Perrault's Les courses de testes et de bague (1670), depicting Louis XIV's carrousel of June, 1662. That on the pastedown (ca. 29 x 26 cm.) bears legend: Trompettes Romains. The other two (each ca. 21 x 21 cm.) are the left- and right-hand groups of two horsemen each that flank Louis XIV in the double-page etching from which they have been excerpted.

1 broadside. ; Title from first 5 lines of text. ; Statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. ; Imprint suggested by Wing. ; "Given at the Council chamber in Dublin the 19th. day of October 1677." ; Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries Library, London.

1 broadside. ; Title from first 5 lines of text. ; Statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. ; "Given at the Council chamber in Dublin the 19th day of February 1676." ; Imperfect: torn, with loss of print. ; Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries Library, London.