MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73) and others.] Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantée Festes galantes et magnifiques faites par le Roy Versailles M.DC.LXIV . Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy for the Imprimerie Royale, 1673-4. Frontispiece view of Versailles and 7 plates of a cavalcade, a tournament, a banquet, the performance of Molière's play La Princesse d'Elide and Benserade's ballet Le Palais d'Alcine , and fireworks; all etched by Israel Silvestre and printed on full sheets. [ Bound with the two works listed below :].
MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73) and others.] Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantée Festes galantes et magnifiques faites par le Roy Versailles M.DC.LXIV . Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy for the Imprimerie Royale, 1673-4. Frontispiece view of Versailles and 7 plates of a cavalcade, a tournament, a banquet, the performance of Molière's play La Princesse d'Elide and Benserade's ballet Le Palais d'Alcine , and fireworks; all etched by Israel Silvestre and printed on full sheets. [ Bound with the two works listed below :]. [FELIBIEN, André (1619-95).] Relation de la Feste de Versailles du 18. Juillet mil six cens soixante-huit. Ibidem: 1679. Five etched plates on full sheets by Jean le Pautre of banquets, Quinault and Lully's opera, Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bacchus , a ball, and illumination around the Fountain of Neptune. (Some browning on 4 plates.) FIRST EDITION -- [FELIBIEN.] Les Divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy a toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comté en l'année M.DC,LXXIV. Ibidem: 1676. Six etched plates on full sheets, the second by François Chauveau the others by Le Pautre, of Quinault and Sully's opera, Alceste , a concert in the Tiranon garden, Molière's La malade imaginaire , a banquet, fireworks, and illumination around the Grand Canal. FIRST EDITION. Together 3 works in one volume, large 2° (430 x 285mm). Contemporary gilt-panelled vellum, a crown tool at the angles (joints split). Provenance : Charles Lord Halifax (1702 engraved bookplate) -- Joseph Neeld (armorial bookplate) -- Paul and Marianne Gourary. THE THREE GREAT OPEN-AIR FETES HELD BY LOUIS XIV AT VERSAILLES. These magnificent productions of the Royal Press were published separately but also issued combined. Berlin Kat. 3001-3; I.K. Fletcher, Splendid Occasions (Arts Council 1951) 132-48; Vinet 5005-7.
MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73) and others.] Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantée Festes galantes et magnifiques faites par le Roy Versailles M.DC.LXIV . Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy for the Imprimerie Royale, 1673-4. Frontispiece view of Versailles and 7 plates of a cavalcade, a tournament, a banquet, the performance of Molière's play La Princesse d'Elide and Benserade's ballet Le Palais d'Alcine , and fireworks; all etched by Israel Silvestre and printed on full sheets. [ Bound with the two works listed below :].
MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73) and others.] Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantée Festes galantes et magnifiques faites par le Roy Versailles M.DC.LXIV . Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy for the Imprimerie Royale, 1673-4. Frontispiece view of Versailles and 7 plates of a cavalcade, a tournament, a banquet, the performance of Molière's play La Princesse d'Elide and Benserade's ballet Le Palais d'Alcine , and fireworks; all etched by Israel Silvestre and printed on full sheets. [ Bound with the two works listed below :]. [FELIBIEN, André (1619-95).] Relation de la Feste de Versailles du 18. Juillet mil six cens soixante-huit. Ibidem: 1679. Five etched plates on full sheets by Jean le Pautre of banquets, Quinault and Lully's opera, Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bacchus , a ball, and illumination around the Fountain of Neptune. (Some browning on 4 plates.) FIRST EDITION -- [FELIBIEN.] Les Divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy a toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comté en l'année M.DC,LXXIV. Ibidem: 1676. Six etched plates on full sheets, the second by François Chauveau the others by Le Pautre, of Quinault and Sully's opera, Alceste , a concert in the Tiranon garden, Molière's La malade imaginaire , a banquet, fireworks, and illumination around the Grand Canal. FIRST EDITION. Together 3 works in one volume, large 2° (430 x 285mm). Contemporary gilt-panelled vellum, a crown tool at the angles (joints split). Provenance : Charles Lord Halifax (1702 engraved bookplate) -- Joseph Neeld (armorial bookplate) -- Paul and Marianne Gourary. THE THREE GREAT OPEN-AIR FETES HELD BY LOUIS XIV AT VERSAILLES. These magnificent productions of the Royal Press were published separately but also issued combined. Berlin Kat. 3001-3; I.K. Fletcher, Splendid Occasions (Arts Council 1951) 132-48; Vinet 5005-7.
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