£220
Nostradamus, Les Prophéties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Centuries VIII. IX. IX. Qui n'ont encores iamais esté imprimees, ?first edition thus, Lyon: Pierre Rigaud, n.d. [c. 1605-10], title-page with allegorical woodblock vignette, decorative initials, signatures collating: A-H⁸ (H8 blank); A2-8, B-D⁸, E⁷, second part lacking divisional title (i.e. A1), tatty and toned, some occasional stains, but growing fainter in places throughout and never affecting legibility of text, A2-8 inner-gutter tear, growing fainter but with loss of letters and some sense, A4-5 lower-corner trimmed and just touching letters, A6-C7 with a growing worm trail, with loss of letters, some occasional cropped losses to running title, early 19th century French calf over marbled boards, contemporary early 17th c purple-stained edges, 8vo
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