GREAT AND RECREATIONAL PROGNOSTICATIONS For this present Yea - Lot 121

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GREAT AND RECREATIONAL PROGNOSTICATIONS For this present Yea - Lot 121
GREAT AND RECREATIONAL PROGNOSTICATIONS For this present Year 089145000470. According to the Promenades and beuuettes of the Sun, by the twelve Cabarets of the Zodiac, and enuisagements and and copulative conionctions of the Planets. By Maistre Astrophile Le Roupieux, steward of the affairs of Saturn, great eschanson of Jupiter, first squire of the God Mars, Maistre charetier of the Sun, first valet of the wardrobe of Cypris, porte-caducée of Mercury, Guard of the buckets of the Moon, and very great contemplator of the Ephemerides Bourrabachales. A Rouen, de l'Imprimerie de David Ferrant, n.d.; (ca. 1620). In-8 of 32 pp. in red morocco, spine decorated with wires, inner teeth, gilt. (Bauzonnet-Trautz). FACETY in prose, very rare and very pleasant. It contains many pieces of verse, often very free, and sayings, or horoscopes, in the taste of the following: When the mules are without vices, / The dogs without fleas in June / And the snakes without venom, / The women will be without malice. The title is decorated with two small woodcut vignettes and historiated letters decorate the text. A very fine copy, with full margins and finely bound, from the libraries of the Count of Lurde and the Baron of Ruble (cat. sale 1899, no. 495) and Edouard Moura.
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