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Lot 239

TYARD (PONTUS DE)
Mantice, ou, discours de la verité divination par astrologie, FIRST EDITION, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, and Guillaume Gazeau, 1558

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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TYARD (PONTUS DE)

Mantice, ou, discours de la verité divination par astrologie, FIRST EDITION, title within ornamental woodcut border, woodcut portrait of the author on verso, woodcut initials and headpieces, lower part of title cut away and restored (with neat pen facsimile to 10mm. of border), some light dampstains, mainly marginal, eighteenth century vellum, 2 corners gnawed [Cartier 422], 4to (235 x 155mm.), Lyon, Jean de Tournes, and Guillaume Gazeau, 1558

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Scarce discourse on the truth or falsity of astrology, in which Pontus de Tyard (1521-1605, Burgundian poet and a member of "La Plèiade") concludes that man is unable to read the stars, and is free from their influence.

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