Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Les Propheties. Edited by Vincent Sève. Woodcut portrait of Nostradamus on title. 93 [i. e., 63], [1]; 56, [8] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, mid-19th-century tan calf gilt, top of spine worn, front joint cracked at top and bottom; margins trimmed slightly affecting preliminary text in both parts and some headlines, early inscription across general title inked over and heavily oxidized with paper crack in outer margin. Extensive pencil notes by Ruzo in Spanish on front endleaves, typewritten notes in French mounted on rear endleaves. Np, 1605

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first sève edition, the first to contain the 141 Présages from the 1555-67 Almanachs and the 58 Sixains. Chomarat 166 (giving variant foliation); Benazra, page 156.