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CROWN PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyipht, 1947, by
GROWN PUBLISHERS
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INTRODUCTION
Nearly everyone, at one time or another, has heard or read something about Nostradamus and his prophecies, Yet, the astonishing fact is that nol since 1672 has there been printed an English edition of his complete quatrains. Asa bookseller, I was struck by this lack because of the great number of pcople, interested in predictions and other phenomena of this nature, who had come to me over a period of years, inquiring for the complete works of Nostradamus in English. As a student of the occult, always secking matcrials on the subject, I too was anxious to procure the unabridged work of the man who is acknowledged as one of the greatest seers in the history of occult science,
Spurred on by these incentives, I began to search the field for all books, old and new, pertaining to Nostradamus. The reward was scanty. The current available books on Nostradamus dealt: with but a few of his more noted quatrains, discussing them at length, but making no attempt to bring to light more than a few hundred out of the thousand he had purportedly written.
At long last I obtained, at an almost prohibitive price, a copy of…