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Peter Lemesurier.
The Unknown Nostradamus: The Essential Biography for his 500th Birthday.
Alresford: O Books/John Hunt Publishing, 2003.
ISBN 1903816327;
ISBN-13: 9781903816325.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards plus dustjacket.
Printer: Tien Wah Press, Singapore.
Size: 161x235x25mm.
Page count: text xviii,269pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition very good: this is an ex-display copy so shows some evidence of handling; mild bumps to both boards at the lower outside corners, some minor dinks elsewhere; but otherwise unused.

This item £5.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £17.99/$27.95]
Weight without packaging: 852g.

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A lightly sceptical biography of the famous apothecary, canal builder and writer of cookbooks.

Contents: Child; Herbalist; Apothecary; Water bearer; Ephemerist; Celebrity; Researcher; Prophet; Mage; Controversialist; Legacy.
Appendices: [translated extracts from selected texts] Cookbook; Orus Apollo; Almanac for July 1566; Specific borrowings from earlier prophecies; Letter for François Bérard; Contemporary critiques.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: several monochrome text illustrations, plus 8 pages in colour.
Maps & plans: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: combined with notes
Index: yes

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