L’Astrologue francois predisant les evenemens singulier

Paris: Claude Morlot, 1649. FIRST EDITION. Crude woodcut on the title of two hands, one holding a globe the other a compass. Recently sewn into old wrappers. Old marginal notations. Fresh. First edition, a curiously accurate pamphlet of astronomical predictions. By tracking the movements of 48 constellations reconciled with the ages of the earth’s quadrants, the anonymous author predicted the French Revolution, the expansion of the Turkish empire, the Gold Rush, and the rise of the “Two Americas” as a global power. He also warns of a comet “with the head of an elephant and the tail of a dragon” destroying Jerusalem as punishment for wars and idolatry.

This title has been overlooked by the standard bibliographies of the Americas.

OCLC locates 4 copies in the U.S. (BYU, Kansas, Harvard, Newberry).

Moreau I: 136, no. 430; Dorbon 157.