1756 ❧ CUYK, PIETER VAN. 1720-1787; PUNT, JAN. 1711-1779. Lyk-Staetsie van zyne doorluchtigste hoogheid den Heere Willem Carel Hendrik Friso, Prince van Orange en Nassau...IV. Februari MDCCLII. The Hague: Daniel Monnier for Pieter Gosse and Nicolaes van Daalen, 1755. Folio. (540 x 375 mm). 41 large double-page plates depicting one-by-one the funeral procession (the last with some stains mostly in the margin); 40 pages of text, including the list of subscribers, signed by the publisher under a warning that unsigned copies are forgeries. UNCUT AND UNBOUND, laid in a contemporary wrapper; cloth folding case. Provenance: Paul and Marianne Gourary (bookplate, their sale Christie's New York, 12 June, 2009, lot 77). AN UNCUT AND UNBOUND COPY.These 41 remarkable plates depict the funeral of the WILLIAM IV (1711-1751), Prince of Orange. The designer of the plates was the painter Pieter Van Cuyk from the Hague and the engraver was the Amsterdam artist Jan Punt, also a renowned painter and engraver as well as a performing actor. Vinet gives a detailed description of the plates--official corteges, infantry, cavalry, the household of the prince including the pastrymakers, the cooks, etc., calling the book 'un bel ouvrage' and also 'une oeuvre remarquable.' The text is in Dutch and French and the legends underneath the plates in Dutch, French and English. The funeral took place in Delft and the last plate--often missing--shows the funeral procession in the Great Market in Delft, before the church, with all the buildings around the square. Landwehr 231; Vinet 646. [With:] PUNT, Jan. Afbeelding van de Zaal en 't praalbed Waar op het Lyk van zyne doorluchtige hoogheid den Heere Willem Karel Hendrik Friso. Amsterdam: Francois Changuion, 1752. Folio (465 x 337 mm). 8 pages of text. 4 double page plates by PUNT after DES SWART (some light soiling). UNCUT AND UNBOUND. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing