Lot 18

Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine], Filippo Suchielli, Siena, [not before 1592]

Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000

Description

Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine], 15 double-page engraved plates, wide margined, tipped onto later stubs, the first with tiny hole at inner margin and paper repair, otherwise some spotting (mainly visible to margins) and a couple with small marginal damp-stains, eighteenth century mottled calf, gilt, some light wear to joints and extremities, folio (engravings 210 x 315mm.), Filippo Suchielli, Siena, [not before 1592].

⁂ A rare collection of these engravings, depicting the festivities in Florence accompanying the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine of France, which took place in 1589.

Description

Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine], 15 double-page engraved plates, wide margined, tipped onto later stubs, the first with tiny hole at inner margin and paper repair, otherwise some spotting (mainly visible to margins) and a couple with small marginal damp-stains, eighteenth century mottled calf, gilt, some light wear to joints and extremities, folio (engravings 210 x 315mm.), Filippo Suchielli, Siena, [not before 1592].

⁂ A rare collection of these engravings, depicting the festivities in Florence accompanying the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine of France, which took place in 1589.

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