Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 613
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NOSTRADAMUS

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Description

  • Nostradamus
  • The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning. London: by Thomas Ratcliffe, and Nathaniel Thompson, and are to be sold by John Martin, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, et al, 1672
  • ink, paper, leather
Folio (11 3/4 x 7 3/4 ins.; 299 x 195 mm). Engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black; faint spotting. Contemporary red morocco, sides with gilt double rules and gilt cipher of Charles II at corners and in five of six spine compartments; upper joint starting but sound, some slight loss at spine foot.

Provenance

Tollemache copy (RSP penciled note). acquisition: H. D. Lyon, 1967

Literature

Wing N1399; ESTC R13646

Catalogue Note

Charles II's copy of the first English translation of the Prophecies.