Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
Centuries de Nostradamus mises en vers français nouveau style [etc.]. manuscript in french, written in small cursive hand in brown ink, recto and verso, on laid paper. Over 400 leaves, interleaved. 192x145 mm, 20th-century tree sheep with morocco lettering piece, raised bands and cover edges rubbed. Bookseller's TLS mounted on front pastedown. Ervauville, 1820

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Unpublished translation into modern French by the Abbé E. Brossard of Ervauville, comprising the life of Nostradamus by Chavigny, Nostradamus's letter to his son César, and the text of the Centuries from an edition after the mid-17th century, with the spurious anti-Mazarin quatrains.