RABELAIS François

[RABELAIS (François). Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem, ex Franicisci Rabelaesi recognitione. Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1545. 2 parts in one volume in-16, third edition of Rabelais’s translation of four treatises by Hippocrates, the second part including the Greek text of the Aphorismes dated 1543, with separate, unpaginated title page. Bound in full later racinée calf, boards gilt-framed with Greek frieze, smooth ornate spine, red morocco title-piece, all edges gilt. (restorations in the lower margin of several leaves, slightly affecting the text of the last leaves in Greek, blue ink stamp “”26″” on the last leaf, faded handwritten inscriptions on the title page, label on the flyleaf).