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
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
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins/Walters Art Gallery, (1999). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, (ii), 309+(1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The story of how William Walters and his son Henry created the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States, is here told for the first time. Drawing on the knowledge of the early museum staff and other valuable sources, William Johnston, the..... READ MORE about WILLIAM AND HENRY WALTERS, THE RETICENT COLLECTORS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75029
N.P. Chapin Library, 1995. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 45, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Foreword by Robert L. Volz. Illustrated, including two in color. READ MORE about FINISHED BY HAND, DECORATION IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 58055
New York: Christie's, 1983. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 155 pages. Illustrated. This sale contained a complete collection of Kelmscott imprints printed on vellum, including the Chaucer. READ MORE about PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS AND WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANSUCRIPTS INCLUDING THE JOHN A. SAKS...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 25265
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
London: J. & J. Leighton, n.d. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top and fore edges cut, bottom edge uncut. 286, (2) pages. Sales catalogue for J. & J. Leighton listing 378 items in alphabetical order by author, title, or subject, from A to H, including several illuminated manuscripts. Contains many black-and-white reproductions from the works. Wrappers detached and chipped at edges. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF GERMAN, DUTCH & FLEMISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56505
New York: American Art Association, 1932. 4to. cloth. viii, 84 pages. McKay 9397. Rebound in later cloth. A fine copy. Preface by Seymour De Ricci. A pivotal sale in the history of bookselling. DeRicci described the collection of 35 manuscripts and 2135 books as "the most valuable and interesting to be sold by auction since the Robert Hoe sales ...." Scandal resulting from bidding arrangements made between Mitchell Kennerley and Barnet J. Beyer led to..... READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, INCUNABULA AND AMERICANA FROM THE FAMOUS LIBRARIES OF THE MOST HON. THE...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 6824
Luzern, Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag, n.d. folio. facsimiles laid in folder. unpaginated. Prospectus for this expensive facsimile including 2 leaves. Text in English, French and German. Two color, gilt-illuminated facsimiles from the memoirs of Marco Polo. One is Fol. 86v, Boucicaut Master, Trading Scene from the Gulf of Cambay, describing trading centers on the return voyage from China. The second, Fol. 88v, Boucicaut Master, The Island of Madagascar. Laid in folder. READ MORE about MARCO POLO
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 109469
Illustrated with facsimiles from the 15th century manuscript. Translated by W. Kenneth Thompson.
Barre, MA: The Imprint Society, 1971. small 4to. boards, slipcase. 89, (3) pages. Illustrated with facsimiles from the 15th century manuscript. Translated by W. Kenneth Thompson. Limited to 1950 numbered copies. Designed and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig with the aid of his son, Martino, at their Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. With five color facsimiles reproduced from the original 15th century Italian manuscript. of Le fatiche d'Ercole in the Houghton Library by the Meriden Gravure Company..... READ MORE about THE LABORS OF HERCULES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 21128
Houten: HES & DE GRAAF, 2010. 8 x 11 inches. Hardcover. 468 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Presented on the occasion of Christopher de Hamel's sixtieth birthday, this book celebrates his many accomplishments during his years at Sotheby's and more recently as the Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Christopher de Hamel has described more medieval manuscripts than any other living scholar. His sale catalogues have set..... READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL BOOK: GLOSSES FROM FRIENDS & COLLEAGUES OF CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 105567
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
New Britain, CT: REM Miniatures, (1983). miniature book (4.5 x 5.7 cm.). pebbled cloth, paper cover label, paper slide-on case with cover label. (10) pages printed French-fold. Limited to 300 copies of which this is one of 241 copies to be hand-illuminated and signed by the illuminator and calligrapher, E. Helene Sherman (Bradbury, REM, 64). Issued on Massmann's 59th birthday. Miniature broadside folded and loosely inserted in a pocket in the back. READ MORE about ERE E EME
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 116550
New Britain, CT: REM Miniatures, (1983). miniature book (4.5 x 5.7 cm.). paper covered boards, paper cover label, paper slide-on case with cover label. (10) pages printed French-fold. Limited to 300 copies of which this is one of 59 numbered copies to be hand-colored and signed by the illuminator and calligrapher, E. Helene Sherman (Bradbury, REM, 64). Issued on Massmann's 59th birthday. Miniature broadside folded and loosely inserted in a pocket in the back. Also..... READ MORE about ERE E EME
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 127835
Comprising Dr. F. G. Emmison, The Lincoln Memorial University, Captain M. E. Butler-Bowdon, O.B.E., Royal Navy, and Rev. Monsignor David McRoberts.
London: Sotheby, Parke Bernet & Co., 1983. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 97 pages. Comprising Dr. F. G. Emmison, The Lincoln Memorial University, Captain M. E. Butler-Bowdon, O.B.E., Royal Navy, and Rev. Monsignor David McRoberts. Auction, June 24, 1980, of Western items, including numerous missals and prayer books. 104 lots. Prices realized sheet laid in. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136601
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
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library in Association with Harry N. Abrams, (1993). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 310 pages. Spine of jacket faded, else fine. A description and history of the Morgan Library, followed by a discussion and illustration (mostly in color) of each of over 200 of "some of the finest and most representative objects" (foreword) selected from the Library's collections. Arranged by collection with a brief introduction for each. Includes an index of..... READ MORE about IN AUGUST COMPANY. THE COLLECTIONS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 76589
New York: (Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 106 pages. With 50 full-page illustrations. READ MORE about MEDIAEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS MAJOR ACQUISITIONS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, 1924-1974
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 9683
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 170 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. "Deals with a hitherto unexplored aspect of the Gothic revival, the awakening interest by connoisseurs in medieval miniatures as works of art." Much on the collectors of the period. A scarce book. READ MORE about CONNOISSEURS AND MEDIEVAL MINIATURES, 1750-1850
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 2441
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 Order nr. 60715
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
New York: Wings Books, (1995). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. Reprint of the first edition. A one volume history of the book illustrated with 350 photographs. With an introduction by Christopher de Hamel. This book received excellent reviews. READ MORE about THE SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 93811
