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RABELAIS, François (ca. 1495 - ca. 1553). La Plaisante et Ioyeuse Histoyre du Grand Geant Gargantua. "A Valence. Chès Claude La Ville. 1547." [? Geneva : ca. 1600].
16° in 8s (111 x 73 mm.). 3 parts in one volume. Roman type. 163 woodcut illustrations (including repeats). (Defects to H2-3 affecting text, washed, otherwise in very good condition.) Red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Provenance: Octave de Béhague (1880 sale, lot 941); Edward Arnold (bookplate); Sylvain Brunschwig (bookplate, 1955 sale, lot 531).
RARE. Early counterfeit of the first collected edition of Rabelais. Gargantua is followed by Second Livre de Pantagruel, Roy des Dipsodes, Pantagrueline Prognostication, and Le Voyage & Navigation que fist Panurge; Tiers Livre des Faictz, et dictz heroiques du noble Pantagruel and Le Quart Livre. Tchémerzine V, 297; Plan 85; Rawles and Screech 39.
16° in 8s (111 x 73 mm.). 3 parts in one volume. Roman type. 163 woodcut illustrations (including repeats). (Defects to H2-3 affecting text, washed, otherwise in very good condition.) Red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Provenance: Octave de Béhague (1880 sale, lot 941); Edward Arnold (bookplate); Sylvain Brunschwig (bookplate, 1955 sale, lot 531).
RARE. Early counterfeit of the first collected edition of Rabelais. Gargantua is followed by Second Livre de Pantagruel, Roy des Dipsodes, Pantagrueline Prognostication, and Le Voyage & Navigation que fist Panurge; Tiers Livre des Faictz, et dictz heroiques du noble Pantagruel and Le Quart Livre. Tchémerzine V, 297; Plan 85; Rawles and Screech 39.