LULLY (Jean-Baptiste). - Lot 45

LULLY (Jean-Baptiste). Ballet du temple de la paix. Dansé devant Sa Majesté à Fontainebleau. Paris : Christophe Ballard, 1685. - In-folio, 368 x 245 : (2 ff.), 216 pp. Brown basane, ornate spine, speckled edges (period binding). Rare first edition, dedicated to Louis XIV, of the complete score of this ballet by Jean-Baptiste Lully, first performed in Fontainebleau on October 10, 1685, to a libretto by Philippe Quinault, to celebrate the Regensburg truce of August 15, 1684 and the end of the War of the Reunions (1683-1684), waged by France against the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. A good copy in contemporary binding, complete with Lully's initials on the last page. Numerous scuff marks on boards, headpieces missing, endpapers removed. Light staining, most pronounced in the L section. Tears without missing leaves D2, G1 and O1.