NOSTREDAME (César de). L'histoire et chronique de Provence de Caesar de Nostradamus où passent de temps en temps et en bel ordre les anciens poëtes, personnages et familles illustres Imprimé à Lyon chez Simon Rigaud pour la Société Caldorienne, 161

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NOSTREDAME (César de). L'histoire et chronique de Provence de Caesar de Nostradamus où passent de temps en temps et en bel ordre les anciens poëtes, personnages et familles illustres Imprimé à Lyon chez Simon Rigaud pour la Société Caldorienne, 161
NOSTREDAME (César de). L'histoire et chronique de Provence de Caesar de Nostradamus où passent de temps en temps et en bel ordre les anciens poëtes, personnages et familles illustres Imprimé à Lyon chez Simon Rigaud pour la Société Caldorienne, 1614. In-folio, 20-1092 p., 64 [of 65] p. (table), red morocco, spine with 6 nerves decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title, gilt fillet on the boards, arms stamped in the center (restorations; title and very last f. faded, stain on the portrait, browning, missing the last leaf of the table). First edition of this first important history of Provence, composed by César de Nostredame, the son of the famous Nostradamus. "This first history of Provence deserves to be preserved, especially because of the account the author gives of the troubles he had witnessed" (Brunet IV, 109). The illustration consists of a beautiful title engraved by Dubraye, framed with large allegories of the cities of Aix, Marseille, Arles and Avignon, an unsigned portrait of the author, and woodcut coats of arms and ornaments in the text. This work was printed by the Société typographique caldorienne, a printing house founded by Pyrame de Candolle (1566-1626), son-in-law of Eustache Vignon. Of protestant faith, he was received as a bourgeois of Geneva in November 1594 and then, in March 1619, as a bourgeois of Yverdon where he transferred his printing house in 1616 or 1617. Copies in morocco with the coat of arms are not very common. Interesting provenance, with the arms of Vincent-Anne de Forbin-Maynier, (1559-1631), first President of the Parliament of Provence, who took in Nostredame and at whose house the History was written; engraved armorial bookplate Alphonse Laurent Antoine Salamon (Carpentras, 1747 - Grenoble, 1815), mayor of Montélimar, and then of Lyon; mss. bookplate dated 1882, on the back cover and on the v° of the portrait, from Charles Phil. Mourret.
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