HOROSCOPES Bound volume containing 103 hand drawn nativity

Sale 2111 - Lot 85

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(HOROSCOPES.) Bound volume containing 103 hand-drawn nativity charts. manuscript in french, written in black ink on laid paper watermarked with papal arms (of Innocent X?) and countermark I V PONCHON(?). 52 leaves. 193x132 mm, 18th-century calf gilt, spine ends chipped; some light offsetting. Armorial bookplate of the M[arqu]is de Queue de St.-Hilaire. France, 18th century?

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Ninety-one of the charts are for unidentified persons born from 1631 to 1697. Of twelve others originally left unfinished, six have been completed in a later hand with the horoscopes of Nostradamus, Catherine de Medicis, François I, Henri II, Henri III, and Louis XIII.