Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties. Woodcut text illustrations. [36], 216 pages, including including woodcut frontispiece showing the beheading of Charles I of England and the fire of London, and full-page portraits of Nostradamus and Henri IV of France. 12mo, 19th-century vellum with morocco lettering piece; marginal dampstaining throughout, few pencil marginalia, H7 torn in upper outer corner with large ink stain obscuring some text on recto and portrait of Louis XIV on verso. Chomarat 302; Benazra, page 269. Rouen: Jean B[aptiste]-Besongne, 1691