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Lot 309
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
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[GRABHORN PRINTING]. RABELAIS, François (1494?-1553). Catalogue of the Choice Books Found by Pantagruel in the Abbey of Saint Victor. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for William P. Wreden,1952.
4to. Title-page and text printed in red and black within brown rule borders. Original cloth-backed boards, paper label gilt on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 unnumbered copies; of these, approximately 125 copies of this edition were destroyed in a fire at the publisher's warehouse. Translated by Walter Klinefelter. GB 523.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation