Live veiling - Lot 953
[Esoterics]
Les propheties [...]. Dont il y en à trois cens qui n'ont encores jamais esté imprimees, 64 ff. - [ID.] - Les rpopheties [!] [...]. Centuries VIII. IX. X., 48 ff.
Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, s.d. [1611?]
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Beschrijving lot
2 works in 1 vol., 8vo (dampstain to 25 first ff. of the 1st work and to the last ff. of the 2nd work, traces of use with a few marg. defects, num. underlinings in ink or red pencil and old mss notes on verso of title, front flyl. damaged).
Old green vellum (sl. rubbed), blind spine on 5 raised bands, spr. edges.
2 rare Troyes editions of the immensely popular verse prophecies of the French apothecary Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), 1st publ. 1555. The 1st vol. contains prophecies I-VII (n. 100 of centurie VI in Latin, centurie VII = 42 + 5). The 2nd work with preface signed Sève, 101 quatrains for centurie X and some quatrains for centurie XI. Woodcut arms of Henri IV on titles. Ref. nostredame.chez-alice.fr/centur17.html. - Bn-Opale plus. - Not in Caillet nor Bibl. Esot. Prov. [Georges Petit].