[BRUSSELS.] HASSELT, André van.

Céremonies et fêtes qui ont lieu a Bruxelles, du 21b au 23 Juillet 1856 a l'occasion du XXVe aniversaire de l'inauguration de Sa Majesté le Roi Léopold Ier; précéde d'un résumé historique des vingt-cinq premières années du règne du roi ...

Brussels, Jules Geruzet, 1856. Large folio (547 x 363 mm.), pp. [2], 41, with engraved frontispieceportrait of King Leopold I, additional allegorical tinted litho title, 22 coloured lithos (1 double-page) and 1 double-page litho; an excellent, large copy in the original publisher's cloth backed boards, front cover with litho lettering and coat-of-arms, somewhat rubbed and corners and extremities bumped. Sole edition of a sumptuous festival book chronicling the festivities in Brussels to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the coronation of King Leopold I of Belgium. The splendid litho plates, printed on tinted ground and then coloured, depict city scenes of Brussels in their festive splendour and the colourful festival floats. The double-page coloured litho plate shows the Place de la Societe Civil with its huge grandiose temporary festival structures looming like scenery on a gigantic stage over the massed ranks of cheering dignitaries.Ruggieri 1135; not in Berlin Kat.; RLIN locates only 2 copies: Getty Centre and Harvard; no copy in OCLC or NUC.

• GBP 2,850.00 > otras divisas
• nº de pedido: A326

• librero: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)