Lot 27: RÈ, VINCENZO.

Narrazione delle solenni reali feste fatte celebrare in Napoli da Sua Maestà Carlo Infante di Spagna... per la nascita del suo primogenito Filippo Real Principe delle Due Sicilie. Naples: [Stamperia Reale], 1749

Condition Note:

folio (565 x 410mm.), engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved headpiece and initial, 15 double-page engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary vellum-backed boards, some offsetting, a few plates remounted, extremities rubbed

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Watanabe-O'Kelly 616; Berlin Catalogue 3078
CATALOGUE NOTE

The celebrations for the birth of Felipe Pascal (1747-1777), son of Charles VII of Naples, included fireworks, a ball and an opera, designed by Vincenzo Rè.