Kenyon, Frederic G.

ANCIENT BOOKS AND MODERN DISCOVERIES.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1927. 4to. vellum-backed marbled boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. (x), 86 pages and 20 plates. First edition, limited to 350 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge. (Haas 141). The collotype plates were made by Emery Walker. Six chapters on early bookmaking including discussions of 12 early types of book material, writing on vellum, paper and libraries. Rubbed along edges and tips. This copy is..... READ MORE about ANCIENT BOOKS AND MODERN DISCOVERIES

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 41990

Kindersley, David.

SPACE CRAFT.

(London: The Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1973). 12mo. stiff card covers with plastic spiral binding, paper slide-on wrapper (with author and title in ink on one edge). Not paginated. Printed by Moore & Matthes for the Society. Text followed by many plates of illustrations meant for a lecture given by Kindersley on critical letter spacing. READ MORE about SPACE CRAFT

Price: $22.50  other currencies  Order nr. 118934

Konig, Jacobus.

algemeene ophelderende verklaring van het oud letterschrift in steenplaatdruk.

Leiden: D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1818. 4to. original self papers wrappers. 17 plates. First edition. (Twyman p.211). First manual of Dutch paleography compiled from the manuscript collection of Jacobus Koning. Reproductions achieved with an early form of lithography. Contains seventeen single-sided pages of facsimiles of Dutch writing from medieval times through the seventeenth century. Original sell paper wrappers. Chipping to ourter edges. Folding to corners. Title on front cover in ink. READ MORE about algemeene ophelderende verklaring van het oud letterschrift in steenplaatdruk

Price: $500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 76805

Lassus, Jean.

L' ILLUSTRATION BYZANTINE DU LIVRE DES ROIS.

Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1973. 4to. paper-covered boards. 88, (6) pages, with plates. Text in French. No. IX of the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of Andre Grabar and Jean Hubert. A study of the Vaticanus Graecus 333. The manuscript itself focuses on the events in the lives of the biblical Kings Saul and David. Foreword. Two pages of color plates; 36 pages of black and white plates. Includes a comparative study..... READ MORE about L' ILLUSTRATION BYZANTINE DU LIVRE DES ROIS

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109437

Losty, J.P.

INDIAN BOOK PAINTING.

(London): The British Library, (1986). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. One thousand years of Indian miniature painting are covered in this introduction to the British Library's collections, which are among the finest in the world. Seventy illustrations, many in color. READ MORE about INDIAN BOOK PAINTING

Price: $5.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64002

Martin, Kurt.

MINNESÄNGER, ACHTEZEHN FARBIGE WIEDERGABEN AUS DER MANESSISCHEN LIEDERHANDSCHRIFT.

Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag, (1953). 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 16, (62) pages. Full-color reproductions of 18 miniatures from the famous Minnesänger manuscript of Heidelberg's University Library--the most extensive, the most complete, and certainly the most gorgeous manuscript source of German Minnesäng. Introduction and commentary on each image. Inserted loosely is an English transcript of the book. Wear and soiling to dust jacket; tear on DJ about six inches long. READ MORE about MINNESÄNGER, ACHTEZEHN FARBIGE WIEDERGABEN AUS DER MANESSISCHEN LIEDERHANDSCHRIFT

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130593

Millet, Gabriel.

RECHERCHES SUR L'ICONOGRAPHIE DE L'ÉVANGILE AUX XIVe, XVe, ET XVIe SIÈCLES D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE MISTRA, DE LA MACÉDOINE ET DU MT-ATHOS.

Paris: Éditions E. de Boccard. 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. lxiv, 809, (3) pages. Text in French. 2nd edition. Reprint of 1916 edition, published in the Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Author was a member of L'Institut. A study of iconography in manuscripts of the Gospels in the 14th-16th centuries. Introduction by the author, bibliography, table of contents. Addenda and corrigenda. Indices of mosaics and frescoes, icons, miniatures, sculptures, painters, iconographers and..... READ MORE about RECHERCHES SUR L'ICONOGRAPHIE DE L'ÉVANGILE AUX XIVe, XVe, ET XVIe SIÈCLES D'APRÈS LES...

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109463

Moore, Margaret F.

TWO SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MEDIAEVAL HISTORICAL STUDY.

London: Constable & Co., 1912. 8vo. cloth. 185, (5) pages. First edition. Contains "I. A classified list of works relating to the study of English paleography and Diplomatic. II. A classified list of works relating to English manorial and agrarian history from the earliest times to the year 1660. With a preface by Hubert Hall. Boards and spine heavily soiled. READ MORE about TWO SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MEDIAEVAL HISTORICAL STUDY

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 42306

Nakanish, Akira.

WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD.

Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., (1984). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 122 pages. Reprint of the 1980 first edition. A well illustrated book, covering scripts from all four corners of the world. Details of 29 writing systems in common use are explained here and work to represent hundred of different spoken languages. Includes bibliography and index. READ MORE about WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121395

Nersessian, Sirarpie Der.

ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE WALTERS ART GALLERY.

Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1973. folio. cloth. x, 108, (4) pages followed by 243 pages of plates. First edition. A study of the eleven Armenian manuscripts held in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. These eleven manuscripts include nine Gospels and two hymnals which span a period from the tenth to the seventeenth centuries. With a foreword by the director of the gallery Richard H. Randall, Jr. and a preface by the author. Illustrated with..... READ MORE about ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE WALTERS ART GALLERY

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 60715

Neuenschwander, J. Brody.

ORDER, VARIETY, AND MEASURE: THE CREATION OF THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT.

(Princeton, NJ): The Exhibition Gallery, The Princeton University Library, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Introduction by the author and select bibliography. Exhibition setting forth the author's thesis that order, variety, and measure governed the creation of medieval manuscripts. Some pages folded at upper fore-edge corner. READ MORE about ORDER, VARIETY, AND MEASURE: THE CREATION OF THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121747