Author: [SPLENDID CEREMONY - MECHELEN].
Title: Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].With:(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius... Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
Description: [12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp.Illustrated accounts of three grand public religious festivals in the Southern Netherlands. Ad 1 is a beautiful series of engravings celebrating the 1000-year jubilee of Saint Rumoldus. Ad 2 records a festival on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Blessed Sacrament, organized by the Jesuit College in Brussels. And ad 3, finally, describes the 700-year Jubilee of Saint Macarius, who aided those suffering from the plague, celebrated in Ghent.Ad 1: tear in plate between pp. 20-21; some plates slightly frayed and browned; ad 2: original leaves cut out and mounted on larger paper; ad 3: browning throughout. Top of spine slightly damaged. Good copies.l Ad 1: Bibliotheca Hulthemiana IV, 27864 (15 plates only); Berlin Kat. 3168 (15 plates only); ad 2: De Backer & Sommervogel II, cols. 295-296; Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 226; ad 3: Praz, p. 426; Berlin Kat. 3167; Landwehr, Emblem Books Low Countries 431.

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