RABELAIS (François). - Lot 26

RABELAIS (François). Les Œuvres... Augmentées 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. [Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier], 1666. - 2 volumes in-12, (12 ff.), 490 pp. misquoted 488, (7 ff. last two blank); (1 f.), pp. 489-946, (4 ff.). Brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Willems, 1374. - Tchémerzine, V, 317. Second Elzevier edition, printed in Amsterdam by Daniel Elzevier, reproducing line for line the 1663 edition. This is not, as some claim, a reissue of the latter with new titles. Used rubbing. Damage and loss to head cover and wormholes to hinge of first volume. Provenance: Edward Lee Childe, with his bookplate.