KONINGLYKE ALMANACH : // Beginnende, met den aanvang der Oorlog , van Anno 1701.... // Waer in Duydelyk // DE LOOP DER ZON DER ONGEREGTIGHEID, // met Zyn ECLIPSEN, // of de // REGTVAARDIGE STRAF DES HEEMELS , // door // XVIII Zinne beelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word ; // nevens d'uytlegging daar by . // door de voornaamste meesters onzer Eeuw . Gedrukt // tot Parys inde Koninglyke druckery van den klyne Louis . // ALMANACH ROYAL. // Commencant avec la Guere de l'an 1701 Iusques .... // ou est Exactement observe // LE COURS DU SOLEIL D' INUSTICE; // avec ses // ECLIPS; // ou // LA IUSTE PUNITION DU CIEL . // Demonstre dans XVIII EMBLEMES. // Gravez en taille doux; ou l'on a Ajoutte // l' Eclaircissement de Chaque figure en Poeesie : Par // les plus fameux maistres de notre temp .// a Paris.Imprime a l’Imprimerie Royal du petit Louis .

Paris / [probably Amsterdam]: Gedrukt tot Parys inde Koninglyke druckery van den klyne Louis [Carel Allard]. Imprime a l'Imprimerie Royal du petit Louis”., Circa 1706. Very rare and desirable, overall plates are crisp and clean; corner of title and edges of some plates slightly darkened; corner torn off at plate 13. . Notes: An important work on the War of the Spanish Succession, with a collection of prints by Carel Allard or “Petit Louis”, ridiculing the “Sun King” or Monarch Louis xiv in eclipse. Many of Allard’s prints, initially separately, were published in sets of varying combinations – including the present ‘Almanach’. For instance, the Rijksmuseum owns a copy of a later 1713 publication entitled 't Lust-Hof van Momus, Beplant met de voornaamste Gewassen van Mars in Europa, Een opgepronkt met Staat-kundige Zinnebeelden Des Tegenwoordigen Oorlogs’ by Abraham Allard, in which most of the prints of the present work are incorportated. Carel Allard, known for depicting royalty, inspired other, later publications, such as satirical engravings in the ‘South Sea Bubble’ published approximately a decade later. Muller comments on the rarity of the prints and the present series; only few known copies exist, mainly owned by institutions; Muller states: "Their value as expressions of the spirit and life of the common people is inestimable: indeed, there is almost no period in our history for which we possess such a rich treasure of prints."
While the title states that the publication was printed in Paris, researchers claim the place of editing and printing to be Amsterdam, that not the royal imprimerie of ‘Petit Louis’ was used, but the printing house of Carol Allard in Amsterdam. Moreover, it is claimed that Allard edited the work in Amsterdam.
, Size: Small Folio (317 x206 mm), Illustration: Text in Dutch and French.
Illustrated with engraved, letterpress copper title and eighteen (18) copper engraved plates; of these, seven (7) full page with letterpress text and eleven (11) double page; all accompanied by text, each in Dutch and all, except for the fifth, entitled ‘DE FRANSCHE EN SPAANSCHE HUYLEBALKEN’ and the eighteenth, entitled ‘HARPAGON den Ouden Schrok EN HARLEKYN Smit’- all in French. Work on the War of the Spanish Succession, ridiculing the Sun King. , Provenance: Pencilled and ink notations and signature on upper pasted and free endpaper, References: Brunet I: 194-195; Cohen: col. 28; Muller, F: ‘De Nederlandsche Geschiedenis in Platen - Beredeneerde Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Historieplaten, …’ (1863-70), vol.1: xiii-xv; vol 4: 36, 3037/3067/ 3068/3082., Pages: Ff: bl., title, 7 full page plates, 11 double page plates. , Category: Book Caricatures; Book Plate Books General; Book Europe Benelux;