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(FÊTE BOOK.) Baerle, Kaspar van [or Barlaeus, Caspar]. Blyde Inkomst der allerdoorluchtighste Koninginne Maria de Medicis, t'Amsterdam. 16 double-page or folding etched or engraved plates. [14], 76, [2] pages, including engraved portrait of Marie de' Medici and final blank. Folio, 368x236 mm, 17th-century calf gilt; small stain in upper inner corner of front endleaves, title dusty, contents otherwise clean, with strong impressions of the plates; red edges. On the leaf preceding the title is an elaborate full-page calligraphic presentation inscription to the brothers Charles-François, Ferdinand-Henri-Joseph, and Jean-Joseph Vecquemans de la Verre, signed Jean Dooremans and dated Antwerp, 26 April 1737, with a drawing of the Vecquemans family arms on the facing page. Amsterdam: Johan en Cornelis Blaeu, 1639
first edition in dutch, following Latin and French versions published the year before.superb copy of a fête book commemorating the royal entry into Amsterdam of Marie de' Medici, the exiled Queen Mother of France (1575-1642), in 1638. The illustrations depict court scenes, street and boat processions, her excursion to the festival structure on a specially-created artificial island in the Amstel River, and allegorical tableaux staged for her.
