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[TRONÇON, Jean]. L'Entrée triomphante de leurs maiestez Louis XIV... et Marie Thérèse d'Austriche... dans la ville de Paris . Paris: Pierre Le Petit, Thomas Joly Louis Bilaine, 1662. One of the great fête books celebrating the marriage of Louis XIV to Marie Thérèse of Spain, and their entry into Paris on 26 August 1660, where they were greeted with great pomp and circumstance. Pérlement commissioned the festival and the work is arranged in four parts: the reception at Vincennes; the triumphal arches; the solemn procession; and the concluding ceremonies with fireworks display. Two issues of this work are recorded by Brunet: one dated 1662, titled as above with 18 plates and a second dated 1665, titled Histoire de la triomphante entrée ..., with 22 plates. This appears to be an intermediary issue. Berlin 2998; Brunet II, 1004; Lipperheide Sg 9; Vinet 501. Folio (437 x 290mm). Engraved frontispiece by François Chauveau engraved portrait of Louis XIV by Nicolas Poilly after Mignard, engraved dedication leaf, 22 engraved plates, of which 14 double-page, by Jean Marot and Chauveau after Lepautre (rusthole in blank area of Arc de Triomphe plate, 2 spots on frontispiece, one on title and one on portrait and dedication, a few other minor spots, tears and some mainly marginal browning, final plate with small marginal chip to corner). Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (sometime expertly repaired and furbished). Provenance : unidentified armorial bookplate – Paul Lacombe (20th-century bookplate).