Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

212 212 c   NOSTRADAMUS, MICHEL DE. The True Prophecies or Prognostications. French text of the Prophéties with English translation and commentary by Theophilus Garencières. Engraved frontispiece depicting the author and translator. [36], 522 pages. Folio, 301x191 mm, old calf, rebacked, free endpapers renewed; contents lightly browned, few small stains on title. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Charles Hoare. London: Thomas Ratcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson, 1672 [2,500/3,500] first complete edition in english of the 16th-century French seer’s quatrains supposedly predicting a multitude of historical events, including the JFK assassination, 9/11, and the rise of Trump. Chomarat C259; Benazra, page 246; Wing N1399. 213 c   [PASCAL, BLAISE.] Les Provinciales; or, The Mystery of Jesuitisme. Discovered in certain Letters . . . Displaying the pernicious Maximes of the late Casuists. Double-page engraved frontispiece [24], 359, [1]; [2], 247, [7] pages, including half-title. 2 parts in one volume. 12mo, 161x91 mm, contemporary calf with modern leather lettering piece, joints starting at top and wormed at bottom, recased, with modern patterned endpapers; center of frontispiece partly obscured by crease, small stain in blank outer margin of opening leaves, contents otherwise clean. Unidentified modern bookplate (“Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns”). London: Richard Royston, 1658 [200/300] Second edition, enlarged, of an anonymous translation first published the year before. Wing P644.