Beschreibung:

Bouquet, Simon. Bref et sommaire recueil de ce qui a esté faict, & de l'ordre tenue à la joyeuse et triumphante entrée de tres-puissant, tres-magnanime & tres-chrestien Prince Charles IX de ce nom Roy de France, en sa bonne ville et cité de Paris, capitale de son Royaume, le Mardy sixiesme jour de mars. Avec le couronnement de tres-haute, tres illustre & tres- excellente Princesse Madame Élisabet d'Austriche, son espouse, le Dimanche vingtcinquiesme. Et entrée de ladicte dame en icelle ville le Jeudi XXIX. dudict mois de Mars. M. D. LXXI. Paris: Denis du Pré for Olivier Codoré 1572 (1571)
A crisp and thick paper copy of Bouquet's account of the arrival in Paris of Charles IX, and the coronation of his wife, Elisabeth of Austria, in Paris in 1571; some of the sections were also issued separately. The woodcut illustrations by Olivier Codoré include arches which are used twice, for both Charles and Elisabeth, with just the top section replaced for Elisabeth's insignia; Elisabeth was ill on the date for the entry so the ceremonial had to be replayed a few weeks later, with similar repurposing of the street decorations. The celebrations also included verses by Pierre Ronsard and Jean Dorat, some of which appear in this account.
The commemoration includes the peace concluded at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1570, which is lauded in a poem by Pasquier in the final section of the book, creating a pause in the wars of religion which finally enabled Charles to enter Paris. The peace was, however, of short duration, given that 1572 was the year of Saint Bartholomew's Massacre in Paris.
Mortimer describes two issues of this work; this copy has features from both and therefore cannot be assigned to either. Mortimer 206 is the thick paper copy, being about 6mm. thicker than the ordinary paper copy.
For an earlier festival book for Charles IX, see lot 485.
4to (244 x 159 mm), thick paper copy. Roman, italic and Greek type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: A-N4 O2; a-b4 c2; A-G4; A-B4 C2: 102 leaves (G4 and final leaf blank). Woodcut vignette of a herald on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut illustrations, 2 woodcut plates (one double-page).
binding: Contemporary limp vellum (247 x 172 mm), spine with manuscript lettering, stubs from two pairs of ties, strips of vellum manuscript around hinges, manuscript title along head of text-block. In half navy morocco drop-backed folding box. (Small wormholes in lower cover and head of spine, spine slightly soiled.)
provenance: Helmut Friedlander (1914-2008), sale, Christie's, 23 April 2001, lot 142, $28,000, to — H.P. Kraus, sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 December 2003, lot 149, $14,000 — Jacques Bemberg, sale, Alde, Paris, 6 March 2017, lot 26. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Mortimer, Harvard French 205-206; USTC 6239; Watanabe-O'Kelly 1649