Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ONLY KNOWN COPY Prognostication nouvelle, & prediction portenteuse, pour Lan M.D.LV. Woodcut vignette of Nostradamus on title. [16] leaves, including last leaf with woodcut of hand holding armillary sphere. Small 8vo, 19th-century morocco-backed cloth, raised bands and top of spine rubbed; margins trimmed close without text loss, contents toned, some early underscoring, last leaf rehinged. Lyon: Jean Brotot, [1554]
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first edition. only copy of the earliest surviving prognostication by nostradamus. No copies of the editions of 1550 through 1554 are known to exist. Chomarat 3; Benazra, page 5.