Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée, ou, Les festes, et diuertissements du roy, à Versailles
Subtitle: diuiséz en trois journées, et commencéz le 7me. jour de may, de l'année 1664
By: Israel Siluestre del. et scul
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1664
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: fre
Subjects: Festivals; Pictorial works; Ballets; Operas; Court and courtiers
Other titles: Festes, et diuertissements du roy, à Versailles; Festes, et divertissements du roy, à Versailles
Notes: Nine double-page engravings, including t.p.

The first day: Course de bague faite par le roy à Versailles, le 6. may 1664; second day: first performance of Molière's La princesse d'Élide; third day: Lully's Ballet du Palais d'Alcine.

H. Schneider, LWV 22, p. 101-106

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

With this are bound André Félibien's Relation de la feste de Versailles (1679) and a set of the engravings for his Les divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy (1676).

Disbound; in oversized box.

Contemporary mottled calf with the arms of Louis XIV of France stamped in gilt on covers, and his crowned monogram on spine.