RABELAIS (François). Oeuvres. Avec des remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. LE DUCHAT. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1741. 3 volumes in-4°, calf, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, spine ribbed and decorated with small suns (period binding). "Nouvelle Edition [...] Augmentée de quantité de nouvelles Remarques [...], de celles de l'Edition Angloise des Oeuvres de Rabelais, de ses Lettres, & de plusieurs Pièces curieuses & intéressantes." Two title-frontispices (t. I & III), a portrait frontispiece (t. II), a portrait by TANJÉ (t. I), four folded plates including the "carte du Chinonois"; twelve engraved plates by BERNAERTS, FOLKEMA AND TANJÉ, & the plate of the Dive Bouteille; vignettes and culs-de-lampe. From the library of Château de Rosamel, with bookplate. Some spotting; foxing; small restored loss on plate between pp. 170-171 of vol. I. Cohen, 840. THE FINEST EARLY EDITION OF RABELAIS.
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RABELAIS (François). Oeuvres. Avec des remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. LE DUCHAT. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1741. 3 volumes in-4°, calf, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, spine ribbed and decorated with small suns (period binding). "Nouvelle Edition [...] Augmentée de quantité de nouvelles Remarques [...], de celles de l'Edition Angloise des Oeuvres de Rabelais, de ses Lettres, & de plusieurs Pièces curieuses & intéressantes." Two title-frontispices (t. I & III), a portrait frontispiece (t. II), a portrait by TANJÉ (t. I), four folded plates including the "carte du Chinonois"; twelve engraved plates by BERNAERTS, FOLKEMA AND TANJÉ, & the plate of the Dive Bouteille; vignettes and culs-de-lampe. From the library of Château de Rosamel, with bookplate. Some spotting; foxing; small restored loss on plate between pp. 170-171 of vol. I. Cohen, 840. THE FINEST EARLY EDITION OF RABELAIS.

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RABELAIS (François). Oeuvres. Avec des remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. LE DUCHAT. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1741. 3 volumes in-4°, calf, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, spine ribbed and decorated with small suns (period binding). "Nouvelle Edition [...] Augmentée de quantité de nouvelles Remarques [...], de celles de l'Edition Angloise des Oeuvres de Rabelais, de ses Lettres, & de plusieurs Pièces curieuses & intéressantes." Two title-frontispices (t. I & III), a portrait frontispiece (t. II), a portrait by TANJÉ (t. I), four folded plates including the "carte du Chinonois"; twelve engraved plates by BERNAERTS, FOLKEMA AND TANJÉ, & the plate of the Dive Bouteille; vignettes and culs-de-lampe. From the library of Château de Rosamel, with bookplate. Some spotting; foxing; small restored loss on plate between pp. 170-171 of vol. I. Cohen, 840. THE FINEST EARLY EDITION OF RABELAIS.
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