QUADRILLES parées costumées exécutées à la cour de Sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière le 3 Fevrier 1835 représentant les divers pays des quatre parties du monde, et les principaux personnages de Quentin Durward, d'après le croquis de M.M. Fries et Nachtmann. Dessinées en aquarelle par I(gnaz) Kurzinger.

With lithogr. frontispiece and 50 lithograpic plates from watercolors by Kürzinger after sketches by Ernst Fries and Franz Xaver Nachtmann, all drawn on stone and printed by Hermann and colored by a contemporary hand, heightened with gum arabic. 1 vol. in 4 parts, loose as issued. Folio (460 x 320 mm). Orig. blue printed paper wrappers. In a grey clamshell box with title and decoration printed on front board. Munich, I.M. Hermann, (c. 1835). First edition of a complete and rare suite of plates of a costumed quadrille. The book is dedicated to "La Duchesse Auguste Amélie de Leuchtenberg" (1788-1851), Princess of Bavaria, wife of Eugéne de Beauharnais (1781-1824) who was stepson and later adopted son of Napoléon Bonaparte,and became Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy. The elaborate costumes were created for a spectacular costume ball given at the court of King Ludwig I of Bavaria (reigned 1825-1848) during the Munich carnival of Febr. 3, 1835. The first two parts of which depicted the four continents and many reprentatives of the various countries. The cream of the "Almanach de Gotha" took part: eighteen participants entered as as native of the Americas, fourteen as Africans, sixteen as Asians, and thirty-five as Europeans. The third and fourth part depicting featured twenty-seven characters from Walter Scott's recently published chivalric novel "Quentin Durward", Furthermore, the work is a collection of portraits and costumes, as it contains the likenesss of the noble personalities involved in the quadrille, e.g. Leuchtenberg, Kielmannsegg, Schönborn, Seinsheim and Gumppenberg. Collation: Plates numbered 1-12; 13-23; 24-36, and I-XIV, engraved dedication leaf and part-title to second part, 2 leaves of letterpress contents, loose as issued. Loosely inserted letterpress bifolium giving the order of the cortege with the representations of the different regions of the world as per the contents leaf (lacking general title as in the copy of BSB Munich) light spotting to frontispiece, dedication, part-title and contents leaves, the plates in pristine condition.- A fresh and clean copy. - Colas 1133; Lipperheide Sbc26. COSTUMES / MODE ; CARNIVAL ; ILLUSTRATED ; BAVARIA ;