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AMADIS DE GAULE. Le dixiesme livre d'Amadis de Gaule, auquel (contenant les haultz faitz d'armes & prouësses admirables de dom Florisel de Niquée, & des invincibles Anaxartes & la pucelle Alastraxerée sa soeur) est traité de la furieuse guerre qui fut entre les Princes Gaulois & Grecz pour le recouvrement de la belle Helene d'Apolonie. Et des aventures estranges qui survindrent durant ce temps. Trad. nouvellement d'Hespagnol en Françoys. Paris, E. Groulleau, for V. Sertenas, 1557. (16) 223 lvs. W. woodcut device of V. Sertenas on ti., & 40 woodcuts in the text. Sm-8°. Later vellum w. overl. sides.

First octavo edition of Book 10, with Groulleau's colophon, dated 1557, at the end, here in the Sertenas issue, with his device on title. Book 10 was translated by Jacques Gohory, with his motto "Envie d'Envie en Vie" on title, and at the end of the translator's preface together with his initials: I.G.P. - Vaganay, Les éditions in-octavo, pp. 40-42 (Groulleau-issue); Foulché-Delbosc 227 (idem); Brunet I, 215.

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