10th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Nostradamus (Michel).
Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …
Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [36], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, gutter gaping in places, front endpaper creased, manuscript on rear pastedown, small bookplate to front pastedown with name scratched off, worn calf gilt (backstrip partially detached with loss to head);
idem, Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …
Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [34], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, lacking a preliminary leaf (a11), small hole in frontis, obscured annotation to title and frontis recto, vellum binding, modern slipcase;
idem, Les Vraies Centuries, Presages et Predictions de Maitre Michel Nostradamus …
Anvers: Peter wan Duren, 1792, French text, x, [2], xii, 136, xxii, 137-312 pages, some foxing/staining, small bookplate to title verso, marbled endpapers, quarter calf binding;
With a modern facsimile of the 1557 first edition in faux leather binding with slipcase.
[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (4)
Sold for £190
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 10th Apr, 2024
The sale includes a sketchbook of drawings of Southern China attributed to George Chinnery. English artist George Chinnery (1774-1852) left an extraordinary record of everyday life in Southern China in the early to mid-19th century, which has become an important source of historical information on the region.
Further highlights include an interesting archive of letters and ephemera relating to the composer and bandmaster Charles Coote (1809-1880), personal pianist to William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, and bandmaster and composer for stage productions put on by Charles Dickens. There is also several collections of 19th century photographs including an outstanding album with many views of Eton College and the River Thames at Windsor, Trinity College Cambridge, Switzerland, Gibraltar and Malta as well as an important photographic record of the Challenger Expedition, generally considered to be the foundation of oceanography.
Single owner collections include a large quantity of books on Polar Exploration and early Whaling. We are also pleased to offer a selection of books from the library of Fred Gettings, prolific author and expert on astrology, symbolism and arcane lore. The library includes many early editions of Nostradamus with several manuscript works on the famous French astrologer.
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