40 - [Emblems] KRAUSS (Johann Ulrich). Tapestries of the King, Depicting the Four Elements and the Four Seasons [...] Königliche französische Tapezereÿen [...] Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1687. One folio volume, in late 19th-century havana full calf, with an ornate ribbed spine; cold-stamped decoration on the covers featuring fillets and a wide ornate scroll; spandrels studded with gilded fleurs-de-lis and fleurons at the corners; interior gilded lace (binding signed L. Guétant). Corner restoration without damage to the text on the first 13 and last 5 folios; burnished serpentine bands.

[Emblems] KRAUSS (Johann Ulrich). Tapestries of the King, Depicting the Four Elements and the Four Seasons [...] Königliche französische Tapezereÿen [...] Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1687. One folio volume, in late 19th-century havana full calf, with an ornate ribbed spine; cold-stamped decoration on the covers featuring fillets and a wide ornate scroll; spandrels studded with gilded fleurs-de-lis and fleurons at the corners; interior gilded lace (binding signed L. Guétant). Corner restoration without damage to the text on the first 13 and last 5 folios; burnished serpentine bands. First German edition, with text in French and German, of this work devoted to the royal tapestries of Louis XIV depicting the Four Elements and the Four Seasons. André Félibien’s descriptive text is accompanied by an allegorical frontispiece, 32 emblematic medallions adorned with mottos composed notably by Perrault, Chapelain, and others, as well as 7 large double-page plates (out of 8) engraved by Johann Ulrich Krauss (1655–1719) after designs by Charles Le Brun, reproducing the famous tapestries commissioned by Louis XIV from the Manufacture des Gobelins.