Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 108
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
DORAT, JEAN. L'Androgyn né a Paris, le XXI. Juillet, M.D.LXX. Folding illustration of a pair of Siamese twins. [12] leaves. 8vo, 20th-century linen with morocco lettering piece, spotting and partial discoloration on front cover. Lyon: Michel Jove, 1570

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Photographic facsimile of the original edition of Dorat's Latin poem on the portentous significance of a recent monstrous birth in Paris, with a preface by Jean-Aimé de Chavigny referring to Nostradamus and quoting quatrain 45 from Century 2. Benazra, pages 95-96; Tchemerzine (1977) III, 4.