10th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Prophecies - Manuscript.
Propheties Perpetu’les depuis l’an 1521 jusqu’à la fin du monde nouveer pour le cabinet de M’ De Pouvoir après sa mort, et expérimentés par L’academie des Sciences. Par Monsieur Jean, Moult.
No date, ink manuscript on paper, [ii], 80 pages, printed portrait and epitaph tipped-in as frontis, woodcut of Garde du Tombeau mounted on front free endpaper verso, symbolic bookplate of Daniel Ruzo, Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus collector, notes in pencil to fly leaf which mentions the French Revolution, Nostradamus and Thomas Joseph Moult. Marbled paper endpapers, worn calf gilt, believed eighteenth century.
[The dates in the manuscript are arranged in blocks of 21, each date separated by 28 years. In Thomas Joseph Moult’s work ‘Prophéties perpétuelles, très-curieuses et très certaines de Thomas-Joseph Moult’, the dates are also separated by 28 years, though in blocks of nine.].
[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library].
Sold for £280
Estimated at £200 - £400
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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