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[GUICHON de GRANDPONT, Alfred DER FLAG, G. Protée-Cigale, équation curieuse, discussion mirificque et veresimiles solutions de l'utrum X de la chresme philosophale des questions encyclopédicques de Pantagruel. Tettigopolis (Brest Anner) 1864 In-8° : 71 p. (some faint foxing, especially on title). Publisher's br. (spine split with small tears, marg. tears to boards). Rare first edition of this Rabelaisian mockery by a learned official of the French Navy administration, Guichon de Grandpont (1807-1900), poet and numismatist in his spare time. Decorated with several in-text woodcuts in the style of Grandville. Joint : [Deville, Albéric] - Biévriana, ou Jeux de mots de M. de Bièvre. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée ; par A.D. Paris, Maradan, [an] 8 [1800]. In-18 (inversion of 1st ff. of Foreword). Modest copy. Ed. adorned with a frontispiece and preceded by a long notice on the Marquis de Bièvre, a great punter before the eternal. (2 vols.)

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[GUICHON de GRANDPONT, Alfred DER FLAG, G. Protée-Cigale, équation curieuse, discussion mirificque et veresimiles solutions de l'utrum X de la chresme philosophale des questions encyclopédicques de Pantagruel. Tettigopolis (Brest Anner) 1864 In-8° : 71 p. (some faint foxing, especially on title). Publisher's br. (spine split with small tears, marg. tears to boards). Rare first edition of this Rabelaisian mockery by a learned official of the French Navy administration, Guichon de Grandpont (1807-1900), poet and numismatist in his spare time. Decorated with several in-text woodcuts in the style of Grandville. Joint : [Deville, Albéric] - Biévriana, ou Jeux de mots de M. de Bièvre. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée ; par A.D. Paris, Maradan, [an] 8 [1800]. In-18 (inversion of 1st ff. of Foreword). Modest copy. Ed. adorned with a frontispiece and preceded by a long notice on the Marquis de Bièvre, a great punter before the eternal. (2 vols.)

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