Eugène Bareste - Nostradamus. Vie de Nostradamus, histoire des oracles, centuries, explication des quatrains - 1840

BARESTE (Eugène). Nostradamus. I. Life of Nostradamus. II. History of oracles and prophets. III. Centuries of Nostradamus. IV. Explanation of the prophetic quatrains. Illustrated with an authentic portrait of Nostradamus, by Aimé de Lemud. Paris, Maillet, publisher, rue de l'Est, 31, 1840.

1 volume, octavo, XII-527 pages, frontispiece portrait. 14x22 cm.

Important work in 19th-century Nostradamus literature, which helped revive interest in the Prophecies: Eugène Bareste (1814-1861) provides a biography of Nostradamus, a history of the oracles, and the complete text of the Centuries, with a preface to César and the epistle to Henry II. The title bears at the epigraph a quotation from Charles Nodier. Engraved portrait of Nostradamus after Aimé de Lemud.

Paperback, printed cover framed.

Condition: cover soiled, darkened, and torn with losses, spine damaged; foxing and some marginal damp stains; clipping from an old German newspaper pasted onto a guard.