Descrizione delle feste celebrate dalla fedelissima città di Napoli, per lo glorioso ritorno dalle impresa di Sicilia della sacra maestà di Carlo di Borbone, Re di Napoli . Naples: Felice Mosca, 1735. 2° (317 x 222mm). Engraved title vignette by Michael Foschini after Roccus Pozzi, engraved headpiece and historiated initial, large folding plate by Bartholomaeus de Grado after Nicolo Tagliacozzi Canale of the decorated pier on the disembarkation at Naples of Charles de Bourbon. (Lacks one plate, few tears in folding plate neatly repaired without loss, light offsetting, very light dampstain in final few fore-edges.) Contemporary speckled sheep, flat spine, speckled edges (a few discreet repairs, neatly rebacked). Three days of festivities, supervised by Don Girolamo Trutta as Maestro di Cerimonia, celebrated the return of Charles de Bourbon, king of Naples and Sicily, from a voyage throughout his kingdom. Theatricals, music and dances as well as fire-and waterworks were staged, and the elaborate pier for his disembarkation was built by the royal engineer Niccolò Tagliacozzi Canale. Vinet 602.
Descrizione delle feste celebrate dalla fedelissima città di Napoli, per lo glorioso ritorno dalle impresa di Sicilia della sacra maestà di Carlo di Borbone, Re di Napoli . Naples: Felice Mosca, 1735. 2° (317 x 222mm). Engraved title vignette by Michael Foschini after Roccus Pozzi, engraved headpiece and historiated initial, large folding plate by Bartholomaeus de Grado after Nicolo Tagliacozzi Canale of the decorated pier on the disembarkation at Naples of Charles de Bourbon. (Lacks one plate, few tears in folding plate neatly repaired without loss, light offsetting, very light dampstain in final few fore-edges.) Contemporary speckled sheep, flat spine, speckled edges (a few discreet repairs, neatly rebacked). Three days of festivities, supervised by Don Girolamo Trutta as Maestro di Cerimonia, celebrated the return of Charles de Bourbon, king of Naples and Sicily, from a voyage throughout his kingdom. Theatricals, music and dances as well as fire-and waterworks were staged, and the elaborate pier for his disembarkation was built by the royal engineer Niccolò Tagliacozzi Canale. Vinet 602.
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