San Diego, CA: Laurel Glen Publishing, 1997. square 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 94, (2) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Very attractive throughout. Beautifully illustrated in full color. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136636
New York: George Braziller, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 126 pages. First edition. Beautifully illustrated with 48 full color plates. READ MORE about LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BOOK ILLUMINATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 30379
New York: George Braziller, (1978). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 119 pages. First edition. Many plates in color. READ MORE about IMPERIAL MUGHAL PAINTING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 121617
London: Sotheby's, 1985. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Unpaginated. A catalogue to a sale of important illuminated manuscripts and other early works, including many fine bindings. 112 entries in all. Sale of June 25th. Well illustrated, much in full color. Spine faded. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MIMIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 48532
London: Sotheby, Parke Bernet & Co., 1983. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 153, (7) pages. Auction, December 10, 1980, of Western items, including numerous missals and prayer books. 123 lots. Prices realized sheet laid in. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES 10 DECEMBER 1980, THE PROPERTY OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ROBINSON...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136600
London: Sotheby's, 1985. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Fully describes 176 items. Sale of November 26th. Well illustrated throughout, many in color. Covers spotted, else fine. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 35347
London: Sotheby's, (1984). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Fully describes 71 items. Sale of December 11. Well illustrated with descriptions of many of the items, some in color. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35348
London: Sotheby's, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 264 pages. A catalogue (June 23rd) to an auction of rare manuscripts and miniatures, including the Armagnac Breviary illuminated for Jean du Roussay. Well illustrated, much in full color. Ink ownership stamp in corner of front cover. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 70282
London: Sotheby's, 1988. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 149 pages. Illustrated catalogue over 68 manuscripts and miniatures. Sale of December 6th. Ink ownership stamp in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106007
London: Sotheby's, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 162 pages. A catalogue (December 1st) to an auction of rare manuscripts and miniatures. 74 lots. Ink ownership stamp in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106008
London: Sotheby's, 1989. large 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 244, (9) pages. Illustrated catalogue of the auction sale held December 5th. 136 lots.Ink ownership stamp in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106030
London: Sotheby's, 1991. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 272, (9) pages. Illustrated catalogue describing 155 items, mainly illuminated manuscripts. A fine copy. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136732
London: Sotheby's, 1990. large 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 354, (9) pages. Illustrated catalogue of 166 lots. Sale took place 29 November 1990. A fine copy. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136733
New York: Arch Cape Press, (1988). thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. Not paginated. Reprint of PALAEOGRAPHIA SACRA PICTORIA which was originally published in 1843-5. A fine copy in fine jacket. A magnificant selection of illustrations from ancient versions of the Bible copied from early illuminated manuscripts. The illustrations are in full color and the accompanying text contains detailed descriptions and gives locations of the manuscripts. READ MORE about THE ART OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, ILLUSTRATED SACRED WRITINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 29600
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, (1983). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xv+(i), 190, (2)pages. Catalogue for a March 15 to June 3,1983 exhibition of 50 illuminated manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Light rubbing to spine and edges, else fine. 202 general entries, with section for expanded discussion and documentation of exhibit items, complemented by large facing reproductions in black and white. Bibliography, indices. Set and printed by the Harvard..... READ MORE about LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, 1350 - 1525, IN THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 63921
New York, NY: Morgan Library and Scala Arts Publishers Inc, 2017. 4to. paper wrappers. 95, (3) pages. First edition. A near fine copy. Fully illustrated in color. Details many of the illuminated calendars located in the collections of the Morgan Library. A rare book. READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL CALENDAR: LOCATING TIME IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 136609
New York: George Braziller, (1988). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 230 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket faded, top corner bumped. A detailed analysis of THE BOOK OF HOURS, the so-called "best seller" of the late Middle Ages. Beautifully illustrated throughout.Jacket spine sunned. READ MORE about TIME SANCTIFIED, THE BOOK OF HOURS IN MEDIEVAL ART AND LIFE. With a foreword by Robert P. Bergman
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 28458
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux and J. Pierpont Morgan Library, (1994). square 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 64 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Magnificently illustrated with 87 examples from the world renowned collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, this is the first book on illuminated manuscripts written specifically for younger readers. We consider it an excellent general introduction to the subject for adults as well. It is a concise text that gives a very..... READ MORE about BIBLES AND BESTIARIES: A GUIDE TO ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136533
Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1966. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 51+(1) pages followed by 32 plates. A catalogue for an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of the museum's founder. 150 items, fully described, illustrated with 32 plates. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 105110
Londonn: Sotheby & Co., 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 20 pages with 12 black-and-white plates. Illustrated version of the catalogue. Wrappers tanned at the edges, some sticker residue on top front wrapper near spine. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND ILLUMINATED LEAVES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106193
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Caen: H. Delesques, 1903-1904. 8vo. later full cloth, leather spine labels, original paper wrappers bound in. xiv, 354+(2); cxxxii, 178+(2) pages, plates. 2 volumes. First edition. (Besterman, 5094). A two-volume catalogue of the printing and incunabula in Caen, followed by discussions of printers, booksellers, and noteworthy libraries. Includes 403 bibliographical references. Delisle (1826-1910) was a curator of the manuscripts collection in the Bibliothèque Impériale, and is admired for his scholarship in illuminated manuscripts and early..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DES LIVRES IMPRIMÉS OU PUBLIÉS À CAEN AVANT LE MILIEU DU XVIe SIÈCLE
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 76167
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, n.d. 12mo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. 47+(1) pages. No.450 of the gift books issued by this German publisher. Text by Hans Naumann and many reproductions in full color of scenes from illuminated manuscripts Indentation mark on first two pages. Spine covering pulled away at head of spine. READ MORE about MINNESINGER, IN BILDERN DER MANESSISCHEN HANDSCHRIFT
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 40088
London: Dennis Dobson, (1970). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition, second impression. Illustrated by the author. Back cover of jacket is spotted. READ MORE about MAN LEARNS TO WRITE, FROM EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS TO MODERN LETTERS, NU
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 96568
New York: Yale University Press, 2011. square 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 431 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Magnificent catalog of the newly renovated Islamic Art galleries at The Met. Glass, metal, books, ceramics, but above all textiles, carpets, embroideries, dress and ornaments. READ MORE about MASTERPIECES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ISLAMIC ART IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 136722
Fair Lawn, NJ: Haywood House, 1971. small 4to. plastic slide covers on most volumes though some are bound in paper wrappers with four issues to a booklet. not paginated, but 15-20 pages each. Edited by Bill Haywood. Each issue contains a feature article, biographical sketch and portrait, book review, and letters to the editor. Illustrated. This run goes from Volume I, No.1 to Volume VI, No.4 complete and Volume XI, No.1 to Volume XIV, No.4..... READ MORE about ITALIX, THE CALLIGRAPHIC QUARTERLY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 79384
