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Les oeuures / de M. François Rabelais, Docteur en medecine ; contenans La vie, faicts & dicts heroïques de Gargantua & de son filz Pantagruel ; auec la prognostication Pantagrueline.

Accession number
PML 61390
Creator
Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?
Published
[France : s.n.], 1556.
Notes
Library's copy: with booklabels of Mme Delessert, Abbé Morellet, Charles Nodier, and Mortimer L. Schiff.
Plan likens the typography of this ed. to that of Jean de Tournes the elder of Lyons.
Signatures: a-2z⁸, A-B⁸.
Third collected ed. of Books 1-4 under the title Oeuvres; a 5th book, probably not wholly by Rabelais, appeared in 1564.
Description
740, [28] p. ; 13 cm (16mo)
Binding
Olive green morocco, gilt spine; bound for Valentine de Laborde Delessert, with her Christian name in gilt on upper cover. In rust quarter morocco box.
Classification
Department