Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
NOSTRADAMUS, MICHEL DE. Les Veritables Propheties. [iii]-xxiv, 192 pages, including half-title; lacks initial blank. Small 8vo, contemporary sheep, heavily worn, spine missing portion at bottom; some soiling and browning, marginal ink markings through most of volume. Owner's inscription on half-title dated 1721 quoting Latin distich disparaging Nostradamus ("Nostra damus cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est / Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi nostra damus") attributed to the poet Étienne Jodelle (1532-73). Chomarat 332; Benazra, page 300. Turin: Reycends & Guibert, 1720