Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ONLY KNOWN COPY Almanach pour l'An 1557. Title in red and black. Kerver woodcut unicorn device on last page. [32] leaves. 16mo, late 19th-/early 20th-century vellum with morocco lettering piece, covers slightly warped; contents soiled, some light marginal dampstaining, pencil numbering in margins throughout, title rehinged, with small hole in blank lower margin. Paris: Jacques Kerver, [1556]

Additional Details

first edition. only copy of the earliest surviving almanac by nostradamus. No copies of earlier editions are known to exist. Chomarat 9 locates only the Bavarian State Library copy (now lost) and this one; Benazra, page 14.