Sale 2683 - Lot 119
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Sale 2683 - Lot 119
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Rabelais, François (c. 1483-1553)
The Works or the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel. [Together with] Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle.
London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694 & 1693.
Four 12mo-format titles bound as three; [does not include the separately published book five]; a mixed edition presumably issued together, bound in uniform full contemporary English sprinkled calf with red lettering pieces, an unsophisticated set with Levenside bookplates with shelfmarks in each; some damage to endcaps; otherwise a nice survival; 6 x 3 3/4 in. (3)
Wing R-104 & R-109; Pforzheimer 815 [Third Book] and 816 [Pantagruel's Voyage].
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
The Works or the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel. [Together with] Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle.
London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694 & 1693.
Four 12mo-format titles bound as three; [does not include the separately published book five]; a mixed edition presumably issued together, bound in uniform full contemporary English sprinkled calf with red lettering pieces, an unsophisticated set with Levenside bookplates with shelfmarks in each; some damage to endcaps; otherwise a nice survival; 6 x 3 3/4 in. (3)
Wing R-104 & R-109; Pforzheimer 815 [Third Book] and 816 [Pantagruel's Voyage].
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.