A Modern Library edition offering a guide to the predictions of the French astrologer, physician and prophet Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), best known as "Nostradamus." Many historic events are believed to have been predicted by Nostradamus, such as the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, and the use of atomic weapons. Edited, and with a preface, by Charles A. Ward. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 376 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1940 date appears in book). ML #81.3. --- A well-preserved copy but with discreet pencilings to a handful of pages, and with some fading to topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket with horizontal scratches & rubbing to front panel, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvi, 366, (8, ads) pages
Title: Oracles of Nostradamus (Modern Library #81.3)
Location Published: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1947]
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Categories: >>Modern Library Editions, >>History
Stock No.: 85696
