RABELAIS (François). Les Oeuvres... Containing... - Lot 154 - Ferri & Associés

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RABELAIS (François). Les Oeuvres... Containing... - Lot 154 - Ferri & Associés
RABELAIS (François). Les Oeuvres... Containing five books of the life, facts & heroic sayings of Gargantua & his son Pantagruel. Lyon, Pierre Estiart, 1571. 3 parts in one volume in-16 of 320 pp.o.c., 4 ff.n.c., 408 pp.o.c., 4 ff.n.c., 149 pp.o.c. and 5 ff.n.c. ; havana morocco, spine ribbed with cold wires and gilt fleurons, double fillet framed in cold on the boards with in the centre the motto of M. Luzarche, inner tooth, gilt edges (Capé). Rare early edition. Title of each part in a woodcut frame and portrait of the author in medallion repeated 3 times on the reverse of the titles. The illustration of the Bouteille is on page 141 of the last part. A very fine copy, cited by Deschamps, with all titles dated 1571, identical to the one described in the cat. de Lignerolles (Paris, 1894, n°1788). "Rare edition, of which M. Brunet could not see a copy when he published his Recherches". The edition is so rare that the B.N.F. possesses only the fifth book, Rawles and Screech reveal in A new Rabelais Bibliography, no. 66, "Locations : Paris, B.n.F. : Res p.Y2 1423. The fifth book only.". Bibliography: Tchemerzine, V, p. 309; Plan, 102; Rawles & Screech, 66.
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