Intagli e dichiarazioni di apparati di carri trionfali fatti in Reggio nel maggio dell'anno 1842 per le nozze delle Altezze Reali l'Arcid. Francesco Ferdinando Principe ereditario in Modena e la Principessa Adelgonda di Baviera

Oblong folio (304x440 mm). [36] leaves, including title page, dedication signed by Luigi Corbelli, preface signed by Prospero Viani, section titles (Carri e apparati notturni/Carri e apparati diurni) and explicatory texts facing the plates, and [31] engraved plates (2 folding). Text throughout within typographic frame. Original printed wrappers (soiled, edges worn, marginal tears, lacking small portion of the back cover and of the spine). Usual stamps of the Este censorship on both covers. Some light marginal staining and foxing, otherwise a very good, genuine copy.

First edition of this festival book published on the occasion of the wedding of Francesco d'Este, future duke of Modena, and Adelgonda Caroline of Bavaria, in March 1842. The event was celebrated in both the two main cities of the duchy, Reggio Emilia and Modena, with the decoration of public buildings, the creation of scenographies in public spaces and with parades of chariots going on both day and night. In Modena the festivities were recorded in a publication entitled Albo pittorico di alcune feste modenesi, also appeared in 1842, but containing only 13 plates.

The plates show the decorations made for the facades of some buildings and above all the chariots coming from all the surrounding towns, including two representing the Jewish community and one belonging to the main responsible for this publication, i.e. Corbelli himself, representing a dragon. The book is divided into two sections, one showing the chariots for the night and the other those for the day.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\MOD\1395821.

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