Topic
French Literature
7 Works AvailableCurated Selection
Extremely rare first edition
Saint-Denis Antoine
Les Comptes du Monde adventureux par A.D.S.D.
Paris, Estienne Groulleau [for Jean Longis and Vincent Sertenas booksellers], 1555$5,500
![Duellum epistolare: Gallie & Italiæ antiquitates summatis complectens. Trophaeum Christianissimi galliarum regis Francisci huius nominis primi. Item complures illustrium virorum epistolae ad dominu[m] Symphorianu[m] Camperiu[m]](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:low,f_avif,c_limit/v1787841688/govi_stock/govi-champier-duellum-epistolare-1519.jpg)
With an early bibliography of Champier's Works
Champier Symphorien
Duellum epistolare: Gallie & Italiæ antiquitates summatis complectens. Trophaeum Christianissimi galliarum regis Francisci huius nominis primi. Item complures illustrium virorum epistolae ad dominu[m] Symphorianu[m] Camperiu[m]
[Lyon], Jean Phiroben & Jean Divineur for Jacques François Giunta, 1519$2,750
Very rare edition in sumptuous binding
Rabelais François
Les oeuvres de Me François Rabelais, docteur en médecine. Contenant cinq livres de la vie, faictz et dits héroïques de Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel. Plus, la Prognostication Pantagrueline avec l'Oracle de la Dive Bacbuc et le mot de la Bouteille
Lyon, Jean Martin, 1585$5,800
![Pseudocicero, dialogus [...] In hoc non solùm de multis ad Ciceronis sermonem pertinentibus, sed etiam quem delectum editionum eius habere, & quam cautionem in eo legendo debeat adhibere, lector monebitur](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:low,f_avif,c_limit/v1785491365/govi_stock/govi-estienne-pseudocicero-dialogus-1577.png)
Henri Estienne’s second attack on Ciceronianism
Estienne Henri
Pseudocicero, dialogus [...] In hoc non solùm de multis ad Ciceronis sermonem pertinentibus, sed etiam quem delectum editionum eius habere, & quam cautionem in eo legendo debeat adhibere, lector monebitur
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1577$900