Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 900
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BOAISTUAU, PIERRE. Le Theatre du Monde. French text with Latin translation in parallel columns. Title within woodcut architectural border. 478 pages. 16mo, 19th-century vellum with rubbed leather lettering piece; light dampstain in gutter of opening leaves. Paris: Micard, 1585

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Scarce bilingual edition of an anthology of human misfortune. The description of a 1546 outbreak of plague in Aix on pages 249-52 in this edition is plagiarized from the account in Nostradamus''s treatise on cosmetics and preserves. This edition not in OCLC or RLIN.