Sales catalogue 526: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/81
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 526: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    French Literature and History——continued. 302 PIERRE DE PROVENCE. L’histoire de Pierre de Provence et de la belle Maguelonne, With woodcut on title-page, representing Pierre de Provence and Maguelonne. Small woodcut on verso, representing Justice and Mars. Gothic Letter. Ato, bound by Koehler in full ‘green levant morocco, gilt lines on sides, doublures of red levant morocco, inside dentelles, g. e. Paris, Nicolas Bonfons. N.D. (circa 1565). £75 Fine copy, with autograph of Jacques Poille on title. From Libraries of Utterson, Des Georges, and Huth. 303 [POPE JOAN.]| Cooke (Alexander). La Papesse Jeanne, ou Dialogue entre un Protestant et un Papiste, prouvant manifestement qu'une femme nommeée Jeanne a esté Pape de Rome: Contre les suppositions & objections faictes au contraire, par Robert Bellarmin & Czsar Baronius Cardinaux: Florimond de Remond, & autres Escrivains Papistes. Mis en Francois, par I. de la Montagne. Small Svo, green calf gilt, with gilt arms on sides. Sedan, 1633. £1 1s 204 RABELAIS (Francois). Oeuvres de Maitre Francois Rabelais, publiées sous le titre de faits et dits du Géant Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel, avec La Prognostication Pantagrueline, l’Epitre du Limosin, la Créme Philosophale, deux Epitres a deux Vieilles de moeurs & d’humeurs differentes, & des Remarques Historiques & Critiques de Monsieur le Duchat, sur tout l’Ouvrage. Nouvelle edition, augmentée de quelques remarques nouvelles. With engraved frontispiece, portrait, three folding plates and maf. 5 vols., 8vo, ovzginal calf. N.P., 1732. £5 5s According to Cohen, the frontispiece and portrait are after W. de Broen. ‘““To his contemporaries Rabelais appeared less as the enormous humourist, the buffoon Homer, than as a great scholar and man of science, whose bright temper and mirthful conversation were in no way inconsistent with good sense, sound judgment, and even a habit of moderation. It is thus that vat should still be regarded. Below his laughter lay wisdom; below his orgy of grossness lay a noble ideality ; below the extravagance of his imagination lay the equilibrium of a spirit sane and strong. The life that was in him was so abounding and exultant that it broke all dikes and dams; and laughter for him needed no justification, it was a part of this abounding life.. After the medizval asceticism and the intellectual bondage of scholasticism, life in Rabelais has its vast outbreak and explosion; he would be no fragment of humanity, but a complete man. He would enjoy the world to the full, and yet at the same time there is something of stoicism in his philosophy of life; while gaily accepting the good things of the earth, he would
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