Le moyen de parvenir
Subtitle: oevvre contenant la raison de tout ce qui a este , est, & sera : auec demonstrations certaines & necessaires, selon la rencontre des effets de vertu : et aduiendra que ceux qui auront nez a   porter lunettes s'en seruiront, ainsi qu'il est escrit au dictionnaire a   dormir en toutes langues, S. : recensuit sapiens ab A ad Z.
Contributors: Verrue, Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de, 1670-1736, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Nordier, Charles, 1780-1844, former owner; Penington, John,  1799-1867,  former owner
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1650
Place of publication: S.l
Language: fre
Number of pages: 623
Notes: "A general satire after the manner of Rabelais written about 1610."--NUC pre-1956

Date of publication Cf. NUC pre-1956 and the catalog of the Boston Public Library. Brunet dates this edition to the early 17th-Century.

Brunet, I, col. 805

NUC pre-1956 NB0370433

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early dark green morocco panelled in triple-ruled gilt. All text block edges are gilt. Both covers contain the armorial super-ex-libris of Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de Verrue. The panels of the spine contain gold-tooled motifs from the blazon of the same arms, with a red leather label at the head. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown, as is the bookplate of Charles Nordier. And embossed stamp on th front free endpaper reads "John Penington, Philadelphia." An early inscription on the title page reads, "par Henry Etienne."