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Paris: Cite Des Livres. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Softcover. Spines slightly browned. Covers have slight edge creasing. ; In four volumes. French text. Colligees et presentees par Pierre D'Espezel. Pages unopened. .
LES OEUVRES DE M. FRANCOIS RABELAIS, Docteur en Medecine. Dont le contenu se voit a la page suivante. Augmentees de la vie de l'auteur & de quelques Remarques sur sa vie & sur l'histoire. Avec l'explication de tous les mots difficiles [Two Volumes] by Rabelais, M. Francois - 1663
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LES OEUVRES DE M. FRANCOIS RABELAIS, Docteur en Medecine. Dont le contenu se voit a la page suivante. Augmentees de la vie de l'auteur & de quelques Remarques sur sa vie & sur l'histoire. Avec l'explication de tous les mots difficiles [Two Volumes]
by Rabelais, M. Francois
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[Amsterdam: Louis and Daniel Elzevier], 1663. 2 volumes. 13 cm x 7 cm, pp. v. 1: [24], 488, [10]; v. 2: [2], 489 - 946, [8]. Red, straight-grained leather, gilt-ruled border, framed with floral corner embellishments, ornate gilt spine compartments, gilt spine lettering stamped direct, alternate spelling of publisher on spine: Elzevir 1663, all edges gilt. Bound by Brentano's of New York with thier embossed stamp at tail of free endpapers.Title-page of vol. 1 in red and black with printer's device: la Sphere, and without publisher's imprint; title-page of vol. 2 in black with printer's device: la Sphere, and with publisher's imprint: Elzevier. Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed, else very good plus set, highly collectible. The first Elzevir edition of Rabelais's works and the basis for the subsequent editions of 1666 and 1675. The Life and Notes are attributed to the scholar Pierre du Puy. Text in French. [Willems #1316] . Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.. 24 mo..
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- Publisher [Amsterdam: Louis and Daniel Elzevier]
- Date Published 1663
- Keywords French; Gargantua; Pantagruel; Elzevier; Elzevir
- Size 24 mo.
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Les Oeuvres De M. Francois Rabelais In Four Volumes
by Rabelais, M. Francois; D'Espezel, Pierre
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Les Oeuvres de M Francois Rabelais
by M Francois Rabelais
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Not Stated : Not Stated , 1691. Leather. Very Good. 5" by 3". None . Late 17th century edition of the works of Francois Rabelais. Vol. I of two only. Containing the works of Francois Rabelais in the original French, with a life of the author and explanations of difficult words. A new edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and final tail pieces. Francois Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer and physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar. He is known for his satires and grotesque jokes and songs, and particularly for his work concerned with the childhoods of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel in the style of bildungsroman. He is considered to be a Christian humanist. Pocket sized. Tables of content to rear. Rebound in full straight up grain morocco binding, marbled endpapers. Externally smart with light shelf wear, rubbed along joints. Previous ownership inscription to recto front blank leaf, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally very clean throughout. Very Good
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