Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Rabelais, François (c. 1483-1553)
The Works or the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel. [Together with] Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle.

London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694 & 1693.



Four 12mo-format titles bound as three; [does not include the separately published book five]; a mixed edition presumably issued together, bound in uniform full contemporary English sprinkled calf with red lettering pieces, an unsophisticated set with Levenside bookplates with shelfmarks in each; some damage to endcaps; otherwise a nice survival; 6 x 3 3/4 in. (3)

Wing R-104 & R-109; Pforzheimer 815 [Third Book] and 816 [Pantagruel's Voyage].

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.