Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 325
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Rabelais, François (c. 1494-1553)
Les Epistres.

Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1651.



First edition, octavo, with engraved portrait frontispiece bound before the typographical title page; final blank (X4) present & genuine; bound in full contemporary parchment, nicely preserved, some toning to contents, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.

With observations by Louis Scévole, and a biographical introduction attributed to Pierre Dupuy, these three lengthy letters written from Rome in 1536 contain important details of Rabelais at a critical time in his career.

Plan XVI; Tchemerzine IX page 323.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.