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A57023 Pantagruel's voyage to the oracle of the bottle being the fourth and fifth books of the works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. : with the Pantagruelian prognostication, and other pieces in verse and prose by that author : also his historical letters ... : never before printed in English / done out of French by Mr. Motteux ; with explanatory remarks on every chapter by the same hand.; Gargantua et Pantagruel. 4.-5. Livre. English Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718. 1694 (1694) Wing R107; ESTC R2564 192,165 472

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