Le Grand Nostradamus

Le Grand Nostradamus

Full title:

• Le Grand Nostradamus: Revue de Science Conjecturale (Mai 1934)
• Le Grand Nostradamus, Revue Illustrée d’Humanisme et de Science Conjecturale (Juin 1934 – Fév. 1937)

Editor:

• Privat, Maurice, Directeur / Maure, André, Administrateur (Mai – Sep. 1934)
• Privat, Maurice, Directeur (Nov. 1934 – Fév. 1937)

Publication credits:

• Édition de l’Institut Nostradamus (implicitly or expressly), 56 rue du Faubourg St. Honore, Paris (all issues)

Holdings:

• 1^re Année, No. 1, Mai 1934. [Front cover] + [1] + [p. 2 of advertisements] + [pp. 3-64] + [blank rear cover]
• 1^re Année, No. 2, Juin 1934. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [2] + [pp. 3-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 1^re Année, No. 3, Juillet-Août 1934. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 3-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 1^re Année, No. 4, Septembre 1934. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 3-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 1^re Année, No. 5, Octobre 1934. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [bound-in small subscription appeal in blue typescript on tracing paper] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 6, 20 Janvier au 20 Février 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 7, 20 Février au 20 Mars 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 8, 20 Mars au 20 Avril 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 9, 20 Avril au 20 Mai 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 10, 20 Mai au 20 Juin 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-35] + [double-page chart] + [pp. 38-64]^[1] + [pp. 67-72] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 11, 20 Oct. au 20 Nov. 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 12, 20 Nov. au 20 Dec. 1935. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 2^e Année, No. 13, 20 Dec. 1935 au 20 Janv. 1936. (Light wear to surface of spine. Short tear to top edge of leaf comprising pp. 7-8.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 14, 20 Janvier au 20 Février 1936. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 15, 20 Février au 20 Mars 1936. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 16, 20 Mars au 20 Avril 1936. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 17, 20 Mai au 20 Juin 1936. (Light wear to very top of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 18, 22 Nov. – 21 Dec. 1936. (Light wear to parts of surface of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-59] + [1] + [pp. 61-4] + [rear cover featuring duplicate of content found on p. [60]; backed with advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 19, 22 Déc 1936 – 21 Janv. 1937. (Light wear to parts of surface of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-62] + [Imprimatur] + [1] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 3^e Année, No. 20, 20 Janv. – 19 Fév. 1937. (Print somewhat faded from covers.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-64] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]

Binding format and presentation notes:

• Nos. 1 to 10 inclusive bound together, including original issue covers, in a quarter-cloth vol. with paper-covered boards (heavily worn at outer corners). Old envelope on letter paper of A. Besdel, Architecte, 169, Rue de Rennes, postmarked Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and addressed to a Monsieur Weidneck, Professeur à l’Union (?: indecipherable) de la Jeunesse, 18 Rue Perrel, Paris, laid in.
• Nos. 11-20 held as original separate issues, staplebound pamphlets

 

[1] The leaf comprising pp. 65-6 appears to have been cut out of this copy by a former owner. It should have contained the first page of daily prognostications for the month, on one side, but might have contained a form of some kind on the other, resulting in it having been removed