Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Fasti di Lodovico XIV. il Grande, esposti in versi in occasione dell'esser levato al sacro fonte il primogenito del marchese Filippo cavalier Sampieri in nome di S. M. Cristianissima.

Accession number
PML 1920
Published
[Bologna, Per Costantino Pisarri, 1701]
Notes
... engr. by Lucio Bononi (?Bononie).
First printed in Paris, 1694(?).
Each of the twelve cantos is by a different author.--cf. list of names inserted in ms. in table of contents, and Melzi, I, 396-397.
Based on Les fastes de Louis de Grand. Paris, 1694.
Illustrations: 13 etchings, comprising portrait of Louis XIV by F. M. Francia and 12 illustrations by Lodovico Mattioli.
Text divided into twelve months, each prefaced by an illustration including the signs of the Zodiac by Lodovico Mattioli (Matthiolus), ...
Description
4 p.l., 230 p., 1 l. plates (incl. port.) 23 cm.
Provenance
Madame de Pompadour, binding; With monogramed book-plate of R. Wilkinson and the armorial exlibris of James Bindley. For Wilkinson, see Howe, Book plates no. 32796 and Bodleian Library, Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century 6:2932.
Binding
Red morocco for Mme. de Pompadour.
Classification
Department