[Rarebooks] fa: RABELAIS, CORNEILLE, BIBLIOTHEQUE FACETIEUSE, &c. - 4 Works in 1 - LIMITED EDITIONS

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Listed now, auction ending MONDAY, March 29. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


P. L. Jacob: Rabelais: sa vie et ses ouvrages. Bruxelles & Leipzig: Auguste Schnee, 1858. [BOUND WITH:] [Francois Rabelais; Thomas Sebillet:] La louenge des femmes. Invention extraite du Commentaire de Pantagruel, sur l'Androgyne de Platon. (Bruxelles: Mertens et fils, [apres 1810]). First edition thus. One of an edition of 100 numbered copies, this being no. 33. [BOUND WITH:] Pierre Corneille: L'occasion perdue recouverte. Paris: Jules Gay, 1862. First edition thus. One of an edition of 520 numbered copies, this being no. 210. [BOUND WITH:] Bibliotheque facetieuse historique et singuliere. Ou reimpression de pieces curieuses, rares ou peu connues des XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siecles. Paris: A. Claudin, 1858. First edition thus. One of an edition of 112 copies.

Four works bound in one volume, all but the first being limited editions. Thick 12mo (14.5 cm) in early/period three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all page edged gilt. Some wear to the corners and edges, spine a bit rubbed and darkened; contents with occasional light toning, otherwise clean and sound, firmly bound. Front paste-down with the elaborate armorial bookplate of Geoffrey C. Hobbes.