Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
Orus Apollo . . . des notes hieroglyphiques livres deux mis en rithme par epigra[m]mes. [84] leaves. 8vo, bound in early 19th-century vellum with modern morocco lettering piece. circa 1541? [i. e., 20th century]

Additional Details

Photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Nostradamus's earliest known work, a verse adaptation in French of the 4th-century A.D. Hieroglyphica of Horapollo. Accompanied by a type facsimile privately published in a small edition in the early 1900s by the Amiens printer Henri Douchet. 8vo, 20th-century flexible calf, original wrappers bound in. Benazra, pages 1-2 and 445.