Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
UNRECORDED Forme et maniere de vivre, tres-utile, pour eviter Au danger de Peste. 32 pages (A-D4). 16mo, later 19th-century cuir-ciselé binding of brown sheep with crude design of cauldron over fire on front cover, and allium(?) plant on rear cover, spine heavily worn, mossing portion at bottom; contents toned and soiled. Paris: René Ruelle, circa 1598-1603?

Additional Details

Unrecorded edition of a collection of plague remedies attributed to Nostradamus. This edition not in Chomarat, who describes a Troyes edition circa 1575, or Benazra, who mentions a differently titled 1561 plague tract; no edition in OCLC or RLIN.