Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 235

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Rabelais, François (c. 1494-1553)
Les Oeuvres de M.F. Rabelais, D. en Medesine ou est Contenue l'Historie des Faicts Heroiques de Gargantua et de son Fils Pantagruel.

[No Place: No Printer], 1626.

Octavo, engraved portrait title of the author by Michel Lasne, no typographical title page in this issue; ex libris Bibliotheca Domini Mascrany, with engraved armorial bookplate, with divisional typographical title pages for each of the five chapters, with a woodcut medallion portrait of Rabelais used at the end of some books, bound in old sponge-decorated sheep, gilt-decorated spine with label, 6 1/4 x 4 in.

Plan 127; Rawles & Screech 93 [noting only one copy with the engraved title found here.]

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.