Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
COUILLARD, ANTOINE. Les Antiquitez et Singularitez du Monde. 365, [19] pages, including final blank. 16mo, late 17th-/early 18th-century sheep gilt, bottom of spine chipped, rear joint cracked; marginal dampstaining through most of volume. Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1578

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First published in 1557, a synopsis of biblical cosmology, geography, history, the genealogy of the earliest generations of man, and the settlement of various parts of the world by them or their descendants, including the discovery of the New World by Noah and his children ("combie[n] qu''il ne soit trouvé par escrit"). Alden 578/21. Bound with: Presages Emerveillables pour XX Ans . . . par le Sieur Godard . . . Disciple de Nostradamus [caption title]. 43 pages; lacks preliminaries. Np, circa 1611?