Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 110
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
Les Propheties. 46 leaves. 8vo, 20th-century linen with leather lettering piece, covers slightly warped. Lyon: Macé Bonhomme, 1555 [i. e., 20th century]

Additional Details

Photographic facsimile of the first edition of the Prophéties, reproduced from the copy owned by the widow of the Paris bookseller Jules Thiebaud, the current location of which is unknown. The only 2 copies now recorded of the original edition are at Bibliothèque Municipale in Albi and the Austrian National Library in Vienna; those once in the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris and the Bibliothèque Municipale in Orléans are lost. Chomarat 8; Benazra, page 9.