Lot 166
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RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS. La Plaisante, et Ioyeuse histoyre du grand Geant Gargantua. Prochainement reveu & de beaucoup augmentée par l'Auheur [sic] mesme. "A Valence: Chès Claude La Ville 1547". [?Geneva, c. 1600]. 4 parts in one, 16mo, 111 x 73 mm. (4 7/16 x 2 7/8 in.), red morocco gilt, g.e., by CAPÉ, two tiny perforations to title, lacking final blank leaf of Gargantua, one or two headlines shaved, washed and pressed.

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RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS. La Plaisante, et Ioyeuse histoyre du grand Geant Gargantua. Prochainement reveu & de beaucoup augmentée par l'Auheur [sic] mesme. "A Valence: Chès Claude La Ville 1547". [?Geneva, c. 1600]. 4 parts in one, 16mo, 111 x 73 mm. (4 7/16 x 2 7/8 in.), red morocco gilt, g.e., by CAPÉ, two tiny perforations to title, lacking final blank leaf of Gargantua, one or two headlines shaved, washed and pressed.

Counterfeit edition of the first collected edition of Rabelais (see preceding lot), 3 parts in one, separately paginated, Roman type, 163 woodcut illustrations (from 38 blocks), copied from the wooduts of the 1547 edition; containing Gargantua, Pantagruel, and Le Tiers Livre, with Le Quart Livre (copying the Lyons 1548 edition in 48 leaves). Brunet IV, 1051; Plan 85; Tchemerzine V, 297.

Provenance: "MD" monogrammed etched bookplate.