(Bale, Switzerland: Editions Holbein, nd). Limited Edition Facsimile of the circa 1647 Paris edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 13 x 16.5 inches, pale blue boards, 61 leaves, full-page portrait engraving of the author, jacket. Edition of 500 regular copies and 50 on special paper, this one of the regular copies. OCLC... More about LES ECRITURES FINANCIERE, ET ITALIENNE-BASTARDE Dans Leur Naturel
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. 269 pp., octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, slipcase. Profusely illustrated. A lavishly illustrated study of this Italian15th-century illuminated book of hours - called the greatest of the museum's Italian renaissance manuscripts. This is the volume... More about THE GUALENGHI-D'ESTE HOURS: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara
Bergamo: Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche Editore, 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. 112 pp. text with 15 monochrome illustrations, followed by the facsimile reproduced in collotype on 12 plates (2-sided); quarto, maroon cloth with cover title and ornament in gilt and blind. "The Song of Virtue and Sciences." Extensive study and... More about LA CANZONE DELLE VIRTU E DELLE SCIENZE di Bartolomeo Di Bartoli da Bologna. Testo Inedito del...
Portland, OR: Collegium Graphicum, (1972). First edition thus. Paperback. [297] pp., illustrated; octavo, decorative wrappers, slipcase. Facsimile reproduction of the 1564 Venice edition of this detailed manual of applied geometry "The Way of Measuring" More about DEL MODO DI MISURARE. (Printed Sources of Western Art series #24. General editor Theodor Besterman
Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, folio, pictorial boards, 287; 149 pp., full-color reproductions of the original circa-1450 manuscript throughout. Text in Danish and German (ms text is German) with English-language introduction at end of second volume. First publication of this medieval manuscript from the University of... More about Johannes Bengedans' bossemester - og krigsbog om KRIGSKUNST OG KANONER / Das Buchsenmeister - und...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. Decorative sewn wrappers, 10 x 6.5 inches, unpaginated; frontispiece with captioned tissue guard and [10] pp text followed by 13 full-page reproductions each with facing page of descriptive text on doubled leaves. Spine foot bumped, covers slightly faded, else near fine... More about DESCENSUS AVERNO: Fourteen Woodcuts Reproduced from Sebastain Brant's Virgil. Strassburg MDII
Huesca: Inst. de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes (facsimile and commentary), folios, green leatherette with gilt title and ornaments; 277 leaves (i.e. 554 pp. facsimile), 166 pp. (commentary), slipcase. Beautiful facsimile reproduction of the late 13th century illuminated manuscript. Text outlines the new legal code established... More about VIDAL MAYOR
NY: George Braziller, n.d. Hardcover. 208 pp., full-page color reproduction throughout, folio (15.75 x 12.25 inches), natural linen cloth over boards. Beautiful reproductions from the circa 1300 manuscript book that is one of the treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library. More about OLD TESTAMENT MINIATURES: A Medieval Picture Book with 283 Paintings From the Creation to the...
London: Scolar Press, 1976. First edition thus. Hardcover. unpaginated (about 200 pp), quarto, natural linen spine with title and spine ornament stamped in black, decorative boards. Facsimiles of 8 Crawhall chap-books, originally issued both separately and as a bound volume, uncolored, this volume reproduces in facsimile an 1883 edition of... More about CRAWHALL'S CHAP-BOOK CHAPLETS
Konstanz, Bodensee: Jan Thorbecke, (1960). First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto, vellum spine and beige boards; [113] pp. Separate 4-page pamphlet "Eine Freiburger Bilderbibel" laid in. Small spot on front board, else fine in fine pictorial jacket. The Pierpont Morgan ms is reproduced in 2-color facsimile, the Freiburg ms is in... More about PICTURE BIBLE OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES; M 334 from the University Library Freiburg im Breisgau and...
London: Facsimile Editions Publishers, [1989]. Loose_leaf. Individual double-sided leaf, 20.5 x 15.8 cm, "float mounted on acid free board set in a double mount with a gold infill and hand drawn fold key lines." Recto of leaf has 2 miniature paintings set in gold borders, a painted vignette in the... More about FACSIMILE LEAF FROM THE ROTHSCHILD MISCELLANY
Zurich: Belser, (1985). Hardcover. 2 volumes, marbled boards, 68 pp. introduction, commentary, translation; 42 pp facsimile, slipcase. Full color facsimile of the circa 1460 treatise on Roman capital letters. With commentary and translation in separate volume. Text in German and Italian. More about ALPHABETUM ROMANUM. Vat. Lat. 6852. Aus der Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
Koln: Taschen, 2003. Hardcover. folio, color pictorial cloth; 415 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions from medieval illuminated bibles. Beautifully presented study of medieval illuminated bibles with many fine reproductions from the collection of the Austrian National Library. More about IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD: The Power and Glory of Illuminated Bibles
Menston & London: Scolar Press, 1973. Second printing thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. 173; 155 pp.; both volumes profusely illustrated. Minor scuffing to covers, crease to rear free endpaper, else very good in price-clipped, moderately edgworn jacket. Facsimile reproductions of the 1727 first edition of the first volume and 1738 first edition of the second volume. More about A Scolar Press Facsimile. FABLES. Two Volumes in One
Paris: Editions Abel Rambert, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. 2 quarto volumes in original cloth, index pamphlet in wrappers; 407; 375; 47 pp., 1185 illustrations, some in color. Slipcases. Definitive guide to the work of the Bulgarian artist "Pascin" - born Julius Mordecai Pincas in 1885. His early artistic training was... More about PASCIN: catalogue raisonne; peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins. Tome I & Tome II, plus...
Copenhagen: (Forlaget Old Manuscripts), 1983. Third edition. 2 volumes, 16mo (12 x 8. cm); introduction volume cream printed wrappers, 58 pp., illustrated; facsimile volume blindstamped red morocco, all edges gilt, [40] pp. printed in colors. Slipcase. Publisher's foreword recounts the publication of the first facsimile edition in 1969 of this... More about GRACE AFTER MEALS and Other Bededictions (sic, i.e. Benedictions) : Facsimile of Cod. Hebr. XXXII...
London: Printed for the Trustees, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. (93), 316 pp. (introduction followed by the facsimile); quarto, half red morocco and boards, gilt spine title. Believed to date from the second decade of the 14th century and acquired by Queen Mary I in 1553, this lavishly illustrated psalter is... More about QUEEN MARY'S PSALTER: Miniatures and Drawings by an English Artist of the 14th Century Reproduced...
[Leipzig: Otto Harrasowitz, 1940]. Facsimile. Folio, vellum spine and cream boards; [28] pp., 1 full-page illustration, text printed in black, red, and blue, with many decorative initial letters. Slight wear to covers, about fine. Diesen von Fust und Schöffer mit Typen Gutenbergs in drei Farben gedruckten Canon missae hat die... More about CANON MISSAE. (Facsimile of the 1458 Fust and Schoeffer edition printed with Gutenberg's types
Weiler im Allgau: Druckerei Holzer for Editions Medicina Rara, n.d. Facsimile of the 1495 edition. Hardcover. Quarto, black leather spine and blue paper over boards; [80] pp., illustrated. Rubbing and nick to spine, else very good, in lightly soiled slipcase. Facsimile of the 1495 Venice edition published by Joannem &... More about FASCICULUS MEDICINAE (facsimile edition
Munich: Prestel, nd. Hardcover. folio, color pictorial cloth; 304 pp., 120 facsimile reproductions of the original illustrations (in slightly reduced format), many other illustrations in the text. No slipcase. Superb reproductions of 120 of the 1300 flower portraits by Matthias Schumtzer of the flowers in the Austrian Imperial Gardnens. Commissioned... More about FLORILEGIUM IMPERIALE: Botanical Illustrations for Francis I of Austria. With Essay by Marina...
Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag, (1953). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13.75 x 10 inches, 35 x 25 cm), grey cloth and boards with gilt titles; (16) pp. introduction, 18 full-page color facsimiles from medieval manuscripts, each with facing page of descriptive text. Sight fading to edges of boards, else fine in... More about MINNESANGER: Achtzehn farbige Weidergaben aus der Manessischen Liederhandschrift. Mit einer...
Paris: Editions Ozalid e Textes Cardinaux / Bibliotheque Nationale, 1990. Revised edition. Hardcover. folio, black cloth; 361pp., illustrated with 117 color plates, 21 text figures. Small stain to front fixed endpaper, else very good in pictorial jacket with fading to jacket spine, no previous owner markings. Reproductions of the illustrations... More about LE LIVRE DES SIMPLES MEDECINES d'apres le manuscrit francais 12322 de la Bibliotheque nationale...
Paris: Philippe Lebaud / Edition du Felin, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13.25 x 9 inches, 34 x 23 cm), original green cloth; (329) pp., including the complete color facsimile of the Tacuinum Sanitatis in Medicina (about 200 pages), followed by a translation of the Latin text to French. Fine... More about L'ART DE VIVRE AU MOYEN AGE: Codex Vindobonensis Series Nova 2644 Conserve a la Bibliotheque...
(Mansfield Center CT: Martino Publishing), no date. Facsimile of the 1909 Methuen Edition. Hardcover. (ix), 176 pp.; quarto, brown cloth with gilt spine title. More about SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS AND QUARTOS: A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594-1685
Zurich: Bibliophile Druck, 1970. Facsimile. Hardcover. Quarto, gray decorative cloth boards; [15] pp., 93 leaves, colophon. Facsimile of the 1486 Conrad Dinckmut edition published at Ulm in 1486. Terence's comedy was written in 161 BCE. More about EUNUCHUS. Deutsch von Hans Neithart. Gedrukt 1486 zu Ulm durch Conrad Dinckmut. (Facsimile of...