Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, II, 121
Brunet II, 1004
Cicognara 1459
Mauban, A. Jean Marot, p. 68-69
Scenes associated with the arrival of Louis XIV and Marie Therese in Paris on Aug. 26, 1660; architectural drawings and plans of the triumphal arches and gates erected by the king and of other celebrated buildings and structures in Paris.
Title and imprint from Brunet.
Mauban gives variant title: Entrée triomphale de leurs majestés Louis XIV, Roy de France et de Navarre et de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, son Épouse, dans le Ville de Paris, en 1662.
Edited by Jean Tronçon. Cf. Barbier.
Brunet counts 18 plates plus frontispiece portrait; Mauban lists titles of 12 plates.
LC copy is a compilation of 48 leaves of plates (including 2 torn stubs), apparently trimmed and bound in Germany in the 18th(?) century. Title page wanting. Frontispiece signed by Chauveau; most plates signed by Marot, some by Le Pautre. Mounted plan signed: A.L. Houdin, architecte du roy. Last plate, architectural decoration and ornament, signed: P. Landry. Some plates are pasted together, some mounted, many folded. Purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat, Munich, about 1930-1935.