Milan, Italy: Edizioni d'Arte Amilcare Pizzi, (1954). 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket, later clotth clamshell box with leather cover label. unpaginated. Text in Italian. Art Publication of the National Library of Venice I. Introduction by Tullia Gasparini Leporace. Facsimile of the breviary of Domenico Grimani (1461-1523). Dust jacket chipped at edges. Spine worn. READ MORE about IL CALENDARIO DEL BREVIARIO GRIMANI
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 125313
Amsterdam: Frederik Muller & Cie. 1929. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 35, (5) pages. Auction catalogue for sale held November 22, 1929 by Frederik Muller & Cie. 112 lots, most notably a fourteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours in which the patron is portrayed worshiping the Virgin. Originally, a separate portfolio of sixty-eight reproductions was meant to accompanied the catalogue. This portfolio is not present but three of the full color plates are loosely inserted. Bears the..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE D'UNE COLLECTION DE MANUSCRITS A MINIATURES DES IXe-XVe SIECLES, COLLECTION D'UN...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77540
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1982. small 4to. boards. 127 pages and many plates, some of which are in color. Ink ownership stamp in corner of front cover. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF TWENTY WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY FROM...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 6909
N.P. Pierpont Morgan Library, n.d. 8vo. 12 prints loosely inserted in envelope. unpaginated. A set of 12 reproductions of the Da Costa hours, originally made in Bruges for a king or prince of Portugal, either Manuel I of Joao III. Color illustrations with descriptive text included. READ MORE about THE DA COSTA HOURS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132203
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1948. 4to. later quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. 10 pages, plates. Items offered for sale by Quaritch. Foldout frontispiece and nine black and white foldout plates. 17 lots, with detailed descriptive information about each. Boards stained and warped. Endpapers foxed. Text undamaged. READ MORE about DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE MINIATURES FOUR MANUSCRIPTS AND TEN PRINTED BOOKS OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 114520
Five boxed sets
Paris: Unesco, 1963. 8vo. plastic boxes. Five boxed sets. Five plastic boxes containing 150 color slides from the former collection of H.P. Kraus. Each box with 30 color slides and a descriptive pamphlet in French, English, and Spanish with historical background and description of each slide in each series. With Unesco, Series 4, which contains Iranian illuminated manuscripts from circa 1410-1596; Series 14, which contains slides of 12 Czech illuminated manuscripts from c. 1085-1364; Series..... READ MORE about DISPOSITIVES D'OEUVRES D'ART
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 76027
(Paris, France): Editionis "Verve" n.d. folio. cloth, front cover gilt-stamped. unpaginated. Introductory comments by Henri Malo, Conservator of the Condé Museum. Color plates. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Portions of text separated from covers. READ MORE about FOUQUETS OF THE CONDE MUSEUM AT CHANTILLY: ETIENNE CHEVALIER'S BOOK OF HOURS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 130731
(Houston, TX): University of Houston, Special Collections, 1969. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Foreword by Edward G. Holley, then Director of Libraries. Description of a small 13th century Bible. Includes comments on the illustrations by Art Department Chair Peter W. Guenther. Endnotes. Two color tipped in photographs and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about GWYSANEY MANUSCRIPT NUMBER FOUR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126757
Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1987. square 8vo. decorated cloth. 79+(1) pages. Text in Swedish. Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, 1987-8 of illuminated manuscripts. Foreword by Per Bjurström. Three introductory essays with endnotes. 93 entries with black and white illustrations of many and a few color illustrations. Index and list of photographic credits. Ex-library with markings. READ MORE about GYLLENE BÖCKER NYFÖRVÄRV OCH NYUPPTÄCKTER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114619
(Hannover, Germany: Scherrerdruck, 1989). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54 pages. Text in German. Introduction by Dietrich H. Hoppenstedt, chair of the foundation. The work of Heinrich der Löwe (1129/30-1195). 21 color plates. READ MORE about HEINRICH DER LÖWE UND SEIN EVANGELIAR--EINE AUSSTELLUNG DER NIEDERSÄCHSISCHEN SPARKASSENSTIFTUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126147
Cambridge: n.p., 1955. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 45, (3) pages followed by 80 plates. With an introduction by Hanns Swarzenski and a foreword by William A. Jackson. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED & CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPTS, AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE FOGG ART MUSEUM &...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 76623
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xx, 190, (2), 10, (2) pages, with 44 illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, with a preface by André Malraux. Frederic Goff's copy with his name and acquistion date in corner of front free endpaper. READ MORE about LES MANUSCRITS A PEINTURE EN FRANCE DU XIIIe AU XVIE SIÈCLE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 47992
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1977. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. unpaginated. Text in German. Publisher's foreword, introduction by Willibrord Neumüller and Kurt Holter. Color plates with gilding of the four gospel writers and their symbols. Dust jacket soiled and chipped at edges. READ MORE about MARKUS UND DER LÖWE: DIE EVANGELISTEN UND IHRE SYMBOLE IM CODEX MILLENARIUS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 130558
Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Vaticana, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 90, (2), i-xxi, (2) pages. First edition. Italian illuminated manuscripts from the 15th century were the focus of this 1950 exhibition at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 160 of the Vatican's most precious books were on display. All are Catalogueed here and many are pictured in black & white. 2 color reproductions. Indexed. In Italian. Indentation in front cover and first few pages. READ MORE about MINIATURE DEL RINASCIMENTO. CATALOGO DELLA MOSTRA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62883
N.P. Printed for the Subscribers, 1927. 8vo. quarter parchment. (xiv) pages followed by 18 plates. With portrait of Herbert and one plate in full color. With four page greeting to Herbert loosely inserted. READ MORE about MINIATURES FROM A FRENCH HORAE, BRITISH MUSEUM ADD. MS. 16997, FIFTEEN TH CENTURY. REPRODUCED IN...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 24857
Vatican City: Vatican Library, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, color cover label. 96, (2) pages followed by 31 plates in black and white. With an 18 page introduction by Anselmo Maria Albarada. Well annotated descriptions 160 items. Some foxing of covers. READ MORE about MINIATURES OF THE RENAISSANCE, CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 40151
Southport, CN: Laurence Witten Rare Books, 1983. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 96 pages. A sale catalogue of fifty-two important early manuscripts, including many illuminated books of hours, breviaries, missals and an unusual illuminated English prayer scroll dating from 1430. Well illustrated, with many plates in full color. Price list loosely inserted. Ink ownership inscription in corner of title page. READ MORE about A MIRROR OF MANUSCRIPTS, SPECULUM MANUSCRIPTORUM
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 45274
(Budapest, Hungary): Helikon Kiadó, 1989). 8vo. cloth, paper spine and illuminated cover labels bound in portfolio. unpaginated. Text in Hungarian and Latin. Facsimile, in color, of a medieval illuminated manuscript, in Latin, in the collections of the Hungarian Museum in Budapest (National Library Latin Codex 221). Accompanied by a guidebook in Hungarian by Zoltánné Soltész. portfolio torn at bottom of spine. Guidebook tanned. READ MORE about MISSALE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 125296
London, England: Sotheby's, 2002. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 82 pages. Auction, June 18, 2002. Lots 33 and 34 of an auction of illuminated manuscripts. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about THE ORACLES OF LEO THE WISE AND THE PONTIFICAL OF FERRY DU CLUGNY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 133652
Firenze: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 1976. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 20 pages. Text in Italian. A catalogue of manuscripts in the library, with 217 entries with introductory comments. Wrappers lightly tanned. READ MORE about L' UOMO, IL LAVORO, L'AMBIENTE NELLE MINIATURE LAURENZIANE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115423
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'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
