[Parma] Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Parma l'anno 1769, Parma, 1769, armorial calf

Parma

Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Parma l'anno MDCCLXIX per le auguste nozze di... Don Ferdinando colla Reale Arciduchessa Maria Amalia. Parma: Stamperia Reale, [1769]

large folio (553 x 400mm.), half-title, additional engraved title-page, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved initials, head- and tailpieces, parallel text in Italian and French, 36 engraved plates (6 double-page), contemporary marbled calf with gilt armorial of the Duke of Parma, spine gilt in compartments with fleur-de-lys and castle stamps, later marbled endleaves, some light foxing across head of leaves, a few small repaired tears to plates, spine repaired at ends

A crisp copy of Bodoni's publication in celebration of the wedding of Ferdinando, Duke of Parma, and Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria, in 1769, showing tournaments, costumes, fireworks and other festivities.

LITERATURE:

Brooks 6; Watanabe-O'Kelly & Simon 1141