ITALY / TURIN. La Sontuosa Illuminazione della... Lot 35

[ITALY / TURIN]. La Sontuosa Illuminazione della cittá di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di Carlo Emmanuele Re di Sardegna e di Elisabetta Teresa Principessa Primogenita di Lorena. Con l'aggiunta della publica Esposizione della Santissima Sindone. Torino, Presso Gio. Battista Chais Regio Stampatore, 1737 / Description of the most remarkable thing that happened in Turin, on the occasion of the Marriage of L.L.M. Charles Emmanuel Roy of Sardinia, and Elisabeth Therese Princess of Lorraine, with the Relation of the exposition of the S. Suaire. In Turin, At Jean-Baptiste Chais, Printer of the King, 1737. In-folio, calfskin, double framed with gilded fillets on the covers, fleuron at the corners, coat of arms in the center, spine with decorated nerves (Piedmontese binding of the time). One plate with the arms of Charles Emmanuel III, duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia (1701-1773), and of Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711-1741) and fourteen double plates, some folded, accompanied by two titles and 45 pp. of text in Italian (27 pp.) and in French (18 pp.), engraved by Giovanni Antonio BELMONDO, Gaetano BIANCHI, Jean Louis DAUDET, Antoine HÉRISSET..., after Ignazio AGLIAUDI (alias AGLIAUDO), G. BERNARDI, Guarino GUARINI, Ignace MASSON, Georg Kaspar PRENNER Bernardo Antonio VITTONE. COPY WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUKE OF SAVOY OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FESTIVE BOOKS OF PIEDMONT, MADE ON THE OCCASION OF HIS WEDDING OF THE PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF THE HOLY SHROUD IN 1737. Binding restored with antique boards preserved; small accidents on boards 4 (restored) and 14. Cicognara, 1504; Vinet, 600; Peyrot, I, 151; Ruggieri, 848; Watanabe, 1545.