Critical History of Nicolas Flamel and His Wife Pernelle

I am well aware that many of the things I have related, and will relate, may perhaps seem small and trivial to mention... Yet it will not be without use to look closely into those things which at first glance seem slight, but from which... the great movements of history often arise. original Latin: "Pleraque eorum quæ retuli, quæque referam, parva forfitan & levia memoratu videri non nefcius ſum...... Non tamen ſine uſu fuerit, introſpicere illa primo aſpectu levia, ex quis... ſæpe rerum motus oriuntur."

Tacitus, Annals, Book IV, Chapter 32.

Note to the Binder for placing the two Illustrations. In the 18th century, books were often sold as unbound sheets; these instructions told the binder where to insert the engraved plates.

The Portrait of Flamel must be placed facing the Frontispiece.
His House on Montmorency Street, page 155. This house, built in 1407, still stands today and is the oldest stone house in Paris.
There is a cancel to be inserted at page 37. cancel A "cancel" (or carton in French) was a newly printed leaf substituted for an original page to correct an error after the book had already been printed.