Histoire curieuse de tout ce qui c'est [sic] passé à l'entrée de la reyne mère du roy treschrestien dans les villes des Pays Bas [...].

Folio: [11 incl. front. & engr.]-[1 bl.]-74-[1]-[1 bl.] pp. (sl. spotting in marg., first quire light waterstained in lower marg.).

Contemp. vellum, covers with gilt central ornament and ruled borders, gilt orn. flat spine (covers sl. spotted, water stain on lower corner of front cover). Nice copy.

First and only edition of the account by Puget de La Serre (1594-1665) of the "Joyous entries" made by Marie de' Medicis, queen of France, in the Low Countries during her exile. Ill. with 1 nice engr. title by Cornelis I Galle and 4 engr. depicting the queen's genealogical tree and her entries into Mons, Brussels and Antwerp (the last 3 signed by Andreas Pauwels). The preparatory drawings for the title, genealogical tree and entry in Antwerp were made by Nicolas Van den Horst. Moretus took on the expense of all the costs of the publication of this book and inserted into it the compliment he had addressed to the Queen on 10 September 1631, when she visited his workshop.
Ref. Landwehr, SC, 84. - Goldsmith P-1590. - STCV 6654795. - USTC 1003945. - Hollstein XVII:11. - Meyer, Véronique - Un auteur du XVIIe s. et l'illustration de ses livres. Jean Puget de La Serre, Bibliothèques de l'École des Chartes, 158 (2000), pp. 27-53.
Prov. A. Chambon (mod. bookpl.).