Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BARET [or BARRET], JACQUES. Le Chant du Cocq François. [2], 4, [2], 221 pages. 8vo, 18th-century calf gilt, top of spine worn, cover corners worn through; contents toned and dampstained, title soiled, with old inscriptions, scattered corrections in ink. Paris: Denys Langlois, 1621

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scarce first edition of a collection of prophecies ascribed to a German hermit concerning European affairs and the universal adoption of Catholicism under a French king as world emperor. Sixain 4 is quoted on page 16. OCLC locates only the University of South Florida copy; RLIN locates only the Harvard copy.