Les vrayes centuries et propheties de maistre Michel Nostradamus :

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

où se void representé tout ce qui s est passé, tant en France, Espagne, Italie, Allemagne, Angleterre, qu autres parties du monde : revues et corrigées suivant les premieres editions imprimées à Paris, Rouen, Avignon, Troyes, Hollande, autres. Avec la Vie de l Autheur. Et plusieurs de ces centuries expliquées par un Sçavant de ce temps . Rouen : Jean-B. Besongne, 1691. Duodecimo (145 x 85 mm), contemporary mottled calf (lower board with tiny piece of loss at centre), spine with raised bands, gilt decoration and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt, and at the head an old library paper shelf label with numeral in ms.; edges speckled red; title with old stamp of the Bibliotheque de Cherbourg, cancelled by that library s duplicate ( Double ) stamp; pp. [36], 216 (sig. A-I12); woodcut frontispiece, and five additional woodcuts including a full-page portrait of Nostradamus, woodcut head- and tailpieces; binding firm, clean throughout, a very good copy. Collated and complete. Rare Rouen hawker s edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, printed by Jean-Baptiste Besongne. The contents include: a life of Nostradamus by J. A. de Chavigny; the preface addressed to César Nostradamus; the letter to Henry II; the Centuries from I to XII, the Omens in the years 1555 and following; the other Predictions of Nostradamus (by Vincent de Sève), and the Remarques Curieuses sur les Centuries . The frontispiece woodcut depicts la Mort du Roy d Angleterre et l embrasement de Londres

• Binding: Hardcover

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