Title: LES ORACLES DE MICHEL DE NOSTREDAME, ASTROLOGUE, MEDECIN ET CONSEILLER ORDINAIRE DES ROIS HENRI II, FRANCOIS II ET CHARLES IX. [Translation: THE PROPHECIES OF MICHELE DE NOSTREDAME (NOSTRADAMUS), ASTROLOGER, DOCTOR AND ORDINARY ADVISOR TO THE KINGS...]
Author: Anatole le Pelletier
Publisher: Le Pelletier, Imprimeur Lithographe
City: ParisYear: 1867 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: Volume 1: 378 pp; Volume 2: 369 ppIllustrated: No
Book Details + Condition: Scarce first edition, 2-volume set, of Pelletier's 1867 work LES ORACLES DE MICHEL DE NOSTREDAME, ASTROLOGUE, MEDECIN ET CONSEILLER ORDINAIRE DES ROIS HENRI II, FRANCOIS II ET CHARLES IX. [Translation: THE PROPHECIES OF MICHELE DE NOSTREDAME (NOSTRADAMUS), ASTROLOGER, DOCTOR AND ORDINARY ADVISOR TO THE KINGS...]. Brown cloth boards with brown leather binding; embossed titles on each spine, with gilt (much which has worn off). Written in the original French language. Volume
1: 378 pages; Volume 2: 369 pages. Both volumes are in Very Good condition: minor shelfwear, and no interior writing or markings save former owner's name on title page of Volume 1. Pasted-in ex-libris present after title pages of each book. Pelletier's work is considered to be the best written and studied of Nostradamus, far ahead of all other commentators (including from the 20th
century). Volume 1 contains the interpretations of many quatrains, most of which are repeated by his successors in the exegesis of
the text of the Centuries (Benazra). Volume 2 reproduces the apocryphal
editions of Lyon falsely dated 1566 and 1568, as well as supplements of the
edition of 1605.
