Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Rabelais, François (c. 1494-1553)
Affentheurlich Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitterung von Thaten und Rhaten.

Strasbourg: Bernhard Jobin, 1590.



Third edition of Gargantua in German, translated by Johann Fischart (1545–1591) following editions in 1575 and 1582; octavo; title page printed in red and black; illustrated with text woodcuts; nicely bound in full contemporary German alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind with brass catches and clasps, 6 3/8 x 4 in.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.