N.P. Chapin Library, 1995. 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 45, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Foreword by Robert L. Volz. Illustrated, including two in color. In later binding. READ MORE about FINISHED BY HAND, DECORATION IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 118098
München: Prestel Verlag, (1972). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 210, (2) pages. Text in German. Publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, V. Early medieval illuminated manuscripts from the collection of Koehler. Foreword by the editors. Complete descriptive information about each item. Table of contents, foreword by the editors, directory of cited literature and manuscripts, index. Dust jacket slightly torn at edges. READ MORE about WILHELM KOEHLER: BUCHMALEREI DES FRÜHEN MITTELALTERS: FRAGMENTE UND ENTWÜRFE AUS DEM NACHLAß
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 115838
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1923. 8vo. later quarter parchment over paste paper covered boards, brown leather spine labels. vii, 68, (2) pages with 154 illustrations. A study of Islamic miniature painting including illuminated books. Well-illustrated. Some scuffing of pastepaper covers. READ MORE about MINIATURMALEREI IM ISLAMISCHEN ORIENT
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 48001
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 Order nr. 109437
4 volumes
Paris: (Protat Frères), 1937. 4to. original stiff paper wrappers with glassine wrapper; fourth volume is a cloth-backed board portfolio containing the plates. (iv), cliv, 304; (iv), 462; (iv), 161, (2); xiii pages + 140 leaves of plates in black and white. 4 volumes. First edition. A multi-volume work surveying pontifical manuscripts held in the public libraries of France (Besterman 3572). An introduction (over 150 pages long) helps establish for the reader the significance of pontifical..... READ MORE about LES PONTIFICAUX MANUSCRITS DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES PUBLIQUES DE FRANCE
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 109425
(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 Order nr. 64002
Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag, (1953). 4to. paper-covered boards. 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. Cloth covers foxed. Pencil inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about MINNESÄNGER, ACHTEZEHN FARBIGE WIEDERGABEN AUS DER MANESSISCHEN LIEDERHANDSCHRIFT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 49582
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 Order nr. 130593
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 Order nr. 109463
Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, (1995). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 355+(1) pages. Text in Italian. Table of contents, introduction, glossary, index of codices. Published to commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ. An exhibition of Renaissance era manuscripts held by the Vatican Library. Scholarly essays and catalogue of the exhibition. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about LITURGIA IN FIGURA: CODICI LITURGICI RINASCIMENTALI DELLA BIBLIOTECA APOLTOLICA VATICANA
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 125419
Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1885. folio. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 20 pages, edges uncut. Includes two articles, "The Golden Jeweled Covers" and "The Manuscript Text," with two color plates depicting lower and upper covers of the Gospels. The manuscript was long in the possession of the Abbey of Noble Canonesses in Lindau, founded in 834 by Louis the Pious, before its acquisition by Ashburnham after the dissolution of the abbey in 1803. The manuscript was..... READ MORE about TWO MEMOIRS OF THE "EVANGELIA QUATUOR" ONCE BELONGING TO THE ABBEY OF LINDAU AND NOW TO...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 109470
W.W. Norton & Company: New York, (1968). 4to. cloth. 307 pages. A study of Western illuminated manuscripts in the German Democratic Republic, covering the period 400-1600, with commentary on the plates. Illustrated with 160 plates, 96 of which are in color. Covers soiled. READ MORE about MEDIAEVAL BOOK ILLUMINATION IN EUROPE, THE COLLECTIONS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 99333
Los Angeles: University of California, 1988. 8vo. stiff wrappers. 127 +(1) pages and 25 plates. First edition. Examples of late medieval or renaissance artists at work in a collection of early printed books. The authors suggest that it was the cartolai or paper dealers, who, in the first twenty-five or so years of Italian printing, were instrumental in the hand-finishing and decoration of printed books. With color frontis and twenty-five black-and-white plates following text. READ MORE about CARTOLAI, ILLUMINATORS, AND PRINTERS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY: THE EVIDENCE OF THE RIPOLI PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 62719
2 volumes.
Berlin: Deutscher Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1936. folio. half vellum with paper-covered boards. (viii), 188 pages; (xii), 202 plates with 1096 illustrations. 2 volumes. First edition. An examination of the art of the 13th century divided in its study by regional schools with particular attention to stylistic similarities and departures with particular attention to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Rhein regions as well as the schools of Regensburg and Salzburg. Includes supplementary tables of the annual..... READ MORE about DIE LATEINISCHEN ILLUMINIERTEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES XIII. JAHRHUNDERTS IN DEN LÄNDERN AN RHEIN,...
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 75794
Mexico City, Mexico: Editorial Hermes, (1965). 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. First printing. Published in collaboration with UNESCO. Index, bibliography. 28 color plates of Irish manuscripts. READ MORE about MANUSCRITOS IRLANDESES PRIMITIVOS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131523
Köln: J.P. Bachem, 1925. 4to. cloth, lettering in gilt. 48 pages, 76 plates. First edition. A study of German book arts throughout the ages, including examples of manuscript illumination, engraving and bookbinding. Contains 76 black-and-white plates with examples of the German book arts. Jacket was torn at one point and has been internally repaired with tape. Free endpaper foxed. With the small booklabel of H.P.K. (Kraus) indicating that this book came from the Kraus reference..... READ MORE about RHEINISCHE BUCHKUNST IM WANDEL DER ZEIT
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 75562
N.P. n.p., n.d. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages and 4 separate plates. Vestutal Monumenta, Vol. VI. Part of a series of antiquarian papers published between 1718 and 1906. Plates XLIII-XLVI of medieval Irish manuscripts. Includes color illustrations from the Book of Kells, Garland of Howth and the Psalter of Ricemarth. Author was a Fellow of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Dublin. Author's essay includes general descriptive information, in..... READ MORE about REMARKS ON ILLUMINATIONS IN SOME IRISH BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 109471
London: Faber and Faber, (1965). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 108 pages. First edition. Glossary in which hundreds of ornaments are illustrated and accompanied by the correct term for the ornament and a definition of the term. READ MORE about ORNAMENT IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, A GLOSSARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8295
Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1971. 4to. paper-covered boards. 51, (5) pages, with plates. Text in French. No. VI in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. A study of the Florence Laur. VI. 23 manuscript, the four Gospels. Preface by Grabar. Foreword. Introduction, descriptive information about each folio and table of contents. 64 pages of black and white plates. Bookplate on front pastedown. Boards lightly soiled. READ MORE about LE TÉTRAÉVANGILE DE LA LAURENTIENNE
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 109440
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 166, (2) pages followed by 64 plates. First edition. Study by this expert in the subject. Accompanied by 136 illustrations in 64 plates. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about ANCIENT BOOK ILLUMINATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 39592
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1978. 4to. boards. 81 pages and 32 plates at the end in addition to the color plates in the text. S-K 1184. This part is less common than other parts of the sale. Xerox of prices realized loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY, THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE MAJOR J.R. ABBEY ... THE TENTH...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 8432
London: Sotheby & Co., 1970. 4to. boards. 97 pages with 55 plates and a colored frontispiece. S-K 1184. Almost a half million dollars of sales. Prices realized loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY, THE SEVENTH PORTION: FORTY-THREE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE 9TH TO...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 123963
Ten volumes.
London: Sotheby's, 1965-1989. small 4to. original boards except parts five and six which are in the original paper wrappers. Ten volumes. First ten volumes of these auction catalogues describing this magnificent collection (lacks the 11th volume which was issued in 1989). Contains one of the best selections of bookbindings and books about bookbindings ever sold at auction. Hundreds of plates of illustrations. Prices realized in all volumes except volume eight. Covers of volume 9 have..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AND FINE BINDINGS FROM THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION, THE...
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 25725
London: Sotheby & Co., 1970. 4to. boards. 97 pages with 55 plates and a colored frontispiece. S-K 1184. Almost a half million dollars of sales. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY, THE SEVENTH PORTION: FORTY-THREE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE 9TH TO...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 6258
Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1986. 8vo. paper wrappers. xiv, 138 pages. General catalogue, including bibliographies, works on the art of the book, prints, and facsimile editions of important manuscripts. Illustrated. READ MORE about GENERAL CATALOGUE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49183
