Engravings by Johann Christoph Böcklin after F.T. Delius. ; Includes index. ; Errata: p. [12] at end. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding: old vellum over boards; ink title on spine; edges stained blue; remnants of green fabric ties; former owner's signature dated 1700 on front pastedown; presentation inscription dated 1949 on front free endpaper.
73-80 omitted in paging. ; Signatures: *⁴ A-Y⁴ Z⁶. ; Engraved t.p. Plates comprises 35 double-page engravings, lettered A-2M, and 9 double-page tables, the first 7 of which are numbered I-VII. A few engraved plates signed W. Hondius. Head- and tail-pieces, initials. ; "Index auctorum"--P. [195]. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Theodore Besterman's calligraphic bookplate, signed P.S. (Percy John Smith?). Three inscriptions in German on front pastedown and front & back 2nd free endpapers; that on the front pastedown is signed M. Jacobus Honoldus. Initials A.R. written at foot of title. ; Binding: vellum. Author & title written at head of spine. Edges sprinkled red.
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.
