[Rarebooks] fa: OEUVRES DE FRANCOIS RABELAIS - Amsterdam: Elzevir 1666

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Auctions ending Sunday, March 19. 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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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Francois Rabelais: Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur en Medecine. Dont le contenu se voit a la page suivante. Augmentee de la vie de l'Auteur & de quelques Remarques sur sa vie & sur l'histoire. Avec l'explication de tous les mots difficiles. [s.l., s.n., but Amsterdam: Elzevir] 1666. Two volumes bound in one, thick 12mo (13.5 cm), in early/period mottled calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; [26], 488, [10] p,; [2] 489-946, [8] p.; title-page of vol. I printed in red and black. Brunet IV, 1059.

The second Elzevir edition, "aussi belle que celle de 1663 et sort probablement des memes presses" (Tchemerzine). Binding with some wear to the corners and rubbing to the spine, cracking to the joints but both boards are secure; light soiling to the title-page of vol. I, otherwise the text is generally very clean, crisp and bright, firmly bound. An early owner has provided a ms. key to the characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel on the last three pages, as well as a sketch of a face (Pantagruel's?) on the front free-endpaper.