L12308

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Lot 326
  • 326

Cabinet du Roi.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Three suites of plates bound in one volume recording fêtes held at Versailles in 1664, 1668, and 1674, as follows:
  • Paper
Félibien, André. Relation de la feste de Versailles du 18. juillet mil six cens soixante-huit. Paris: de l'imprimerie royale, 1679, [2], 43pp., title with engraved armorial vignette, engraved headpiece and initial, 5 double-page engraved plates, by Le Pautre dated 1678 and 1679



[Les divertissements de Versailles. Paris, 1676], 6 double-page engraved plates by Le Pautre and Chauveau dated 1676, without letter-press



Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantee, ou les festes et divertissements du Roy, a Versailles, divisez en trois journees, et commencez le 7me Jour de May, de l'annee 1664. [Paris, 1673], double-page engraved title, 9 double-page engraved plates by Silvestre, without letter-press



Folio (422 x 282mm.), contemporary mottled calf gilt, central French royal arms gilt on covers, binding with some delamination, rubbed at extremities

Literature

cf. BAL RIBA 518.L (1727 reissue)

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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