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19023402<p> F. Lumachi publisher. 1902. Florence. Full vellum limp with leather ties. This is a nice example of one of the Florence gift bindings done around the turn of the century. The front cover is hand painted titling and decoration in a fine hand. A slight bit of discoloration to the vellum otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Yapp edges all ties present.</p> F. Lumachi hardcover books
3943Hardcover. Very Good. Published circa 1900 gift inscription dated 1908. 22 pp. Little book measuring apx. 5.5" x 3". Presumably very scarce. The binding is lovely: full vellum with both front and rear panels painted in colors and heightened with gold. Light wear. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1464London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. Octavo. A sensuously romantic but chaste gift binding in full vellum with the initials " J. J. de W." in gilt on the front cover and " 25. June 1895 d. d. G. B. R." on the back cover. 184 pages. The gilt titled spine has an ornament of a single gilt inverted lily blossom on a sinuous stem with the date 1895 in gilt at the foot of the spine. Small gilt lily blossoms also adorn the corners of both covers. Vellum turn-ins with double gilt rules. Top edge gilt. Although this binding is unsigned it was obviously the work of a skilled binder producing a gift volume to represent the affection of the presenter and hopefully the cherished regard of the receiver. hardcover books
1924WRCLIT75177Paris: L'Edition d'Art 1924. Octavo. Full stiff vellum the upper board hand painted with an elaborate frame of intertwined devices in red and black separating small circular vignettes of birds and heart devices repeated in a modified fashion on the spine devices with highlights in gold and a central vignette of a sailing ship on the rear board t.e.g. wallet fore- edges. A bit of slight rubbing but moderately well preserved internally fine. Later edition. The binding was attributed by a previous owner to art nouveau exponent Charles Septier although it is not signed by him. However a small ink signature and date appears on the front top vellum turn-in - "Henry de Bertier June 1926" - and may be either an ownership marking or just as likely the identification of the artist. L'Edition d'Art hardcover books
107067French probably Paris: c. 1475. Single leaf on vellum 4 x 3 1/4 ins. with good margins. 20 lines written in black/brown ink simple floriate border heightened in gold on both sides. § A sweet little leaf from the end of the Mass for the dead. c. 1475. Single leaf on vellum hardcover books
16024955Venice: Giovanni Battista Ciotti 1602. First edition. Leather. Very Good/The first methodical Italian dictionary based on literary examples il Memoriale della lingua appeared ten years before the Accademia della Crusca issued its famous dictionary. Gamba points out that Pergamino who was a friend of Tasso utilized examples that the Crusca missed such as Tasso's dialogues Guido Cavalcanti Ludovico Dolce and Gian Giorgio Trissino. The first edition is quite scarce absent from recent auction records with copies scattered in a few important libraries. Gamba himself saw only the second edition of 1617. A third edition appeared in 1656. Folio 31 cm; 12 524 395 i.e. 375 lacks two unnumbered leaves errata at end. Title page in red and black. Printer's device on title page and colophon. Text printed in two columns. Woodcut head pieces; initials. Rebacked in period style retaining eighteenth-century boards in flecked calf gilt with double fillets. Title page and colophon a little worn but contents generally clean and bright. Few marginal worm trails. Discrete 19th-century library blindstamp on title page colophon and few other leaves. Reference: Bruni & Evans 4042; Michel VI 97; Fontanini I80 "il primo Vocabolario pieno e metodico"; Gamba 2757 1617 ed.; Vinciana 3839 1656 ed. "uno dei migliori vocabolari italiani pubblicati prima della Crusca." Giovanni Battista Ciotti hardcover books
161743152Venetia: Apresso Gio. Battista Ciotti 1617. Seconda impressione two parts in one folio pp. 12 609 1 8 236; a6 A-2N8 2O-2p6 †4 A-O8 P6; V4 of the first section missigned R4 with manuscript cancellation; woodcut printer's device initials and head- and tail-pieces; title page printed in red and black; text in double columns; full contemporary vellum soiling calf bands manuscript spine title and ornamentation; vertical hatch marks to upper cover edges quite rubbed and worn; endpapers supplied title page edges rather ragged minor worming to preliminaries else textblock mostly very good. Small period manuscript paper label "Ad usum A.M.L. Parm." mounted to bottom of title page. Zaunmüller p. 209. OCLC does not locate any copies in the United States. <br/><br/> Apresso Gio. Battista Ciotti hardcover books
105895Dutch school: c. 1450 or later. Single leaf 138 x 98mm. Miniature without text image of Christ before Caiaphas being held by a soldier with a jester dancing behind Him disciples behind Him with a cock sitting above the three-sided border of simple flowers. In good condition. § Origin and provenance unknown; from a private California collection. c. 1450 or later. Single leaf unknown books
8719Central Italy c.1250. Matted in fine condition. § A well-painted initial of a man in flowing blue and pink robes holding a book to which he gestures probably Saint Paul. Italian miniature paintings of this period are known to be difficult to localize with any accuracy but as the face is strongly drawn with well-proportioned features it might well hail from central Italy. unknown books
8716German: c. 1500. Single leaf 132 x 155 mm. Very good matted. § An intriguing painting showing the instruments of the Passion a crowing cock the head of Judas the thirty pieces of silver &c. A somewhat surreal piece with the head and some of the instruments floating in the air against a rich blue background Christ standing before a tomb clad in loincloth and red cloak with a blue cloak on the tomb a ladder and pillar at each side. Some surface wear and damage within the image which is also cropped slightly but an interesting and unusual painting. c. 1500. Single leaf hardcover books
1833123235Small slim 4to. Paris: Techener 1833. Small slim 4to32ff printed in black letter on vellum woodcut illustration on t/p. Original full orange morocco backstrip gilt black label modern quarter red morocco box bookplate of Robert Hoe. A fine copy with some fading to the boards. § Unique copy printed on vellum Hoe's copy with his bookplate of this first facsimile reprint of the extremely rare French edition of 1530. This was one of several tales printed in the sixteenth century as a collection itself of the utmost rarity. We have not located a single copy in the US. Techener hardcover books
105904Rhineland or possibly Flanders or England: c. 1260-1280. Single leaf 177 x 131mm. 20 lines of text in gothic script. 4-line historiated initial of a knight in armor 4 initials in gold gold highlighting in text. Small drawing of a dragon in red ink drawing of a bird in left margin partly trimmed away. In very good condition. § A very fine and early leaf of interest in that other leaves from this manuscript are known which variously originate from either the Rhineland or England. Elaborate description on back probably English dealer provenance. Private collection California. c. 1260-1280. Single leaf unknown books
107057Britanny: c. 1430. 7.8†x 5.6â€. Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours with two large miniatures of St. Nicholas blessing the three children in the pickling tub and of St. Sebastian tied to a pillar in a mountainous landscape while two archers shoot arrows at him in strong color and burnished gold. In good condition. § On the recto St. Nicolas is shown standing on a grassy field holding a crozier against a red decorated wall while the three naked boys stand up in the tub and on the verso St. Sebastian is tied to a post bleeding and pierced with arrows shot at close range. Six initials one-line to three-line illuminated in gold and colours line-fillers; on either side of page panel borders composed of burnished gold leaves on hair-line stems with sprays of colored leaves in center of panel.Unusual and attractive miniatures painted in strong colors in the style which spread the Roham Master westwards from Paris into Rennes and elsewhere in Britanny in the 1420’s and 1430’s. c. 1430. 7.8†x 5.6â€. Illuminated leaf on vellum hardcover books
122865France possibly Maine or Anjou: c. 1480. Single leaf 162 mm x 110 mm. Slight fading in an old frame with metal fittings. A finely painted miniature with the use of gold modeling and the cloud of cherubim in the tradition pioneered by Jean Fouquet. § The Virgin and God seated on separate stools in a paneled room God placing a crown on her head a host of blue seraphim behind miniature in an arched compartment above the large initial and three lines of text opening of Compline within a full border of colored flowers and acanthus leaves in little rectangles with ground of liquid gold or pale blue or plain vellum. c. 1480. Single leaf hardcover books
122866Naples: late 15th century. A cutting 173 mm x 182 mm with historiated initial 'E' doubtless the introit 'Ecce advenit. for Mass at Epiphany 147 mm x 152 mm. Slight spots of rubbing. In an elaborate gold frame. § The Virgin and Child seated on the right with Joseph behind set among green and yellow hills painted in full colors and liquid gold the initial itself in elaborate leafy design in dark red with pink and white heightening entwined with green leaves at the top and bottom set on a burnished gold ground with colored trefoils in each corner flecked blue surround traces of text and music to the right of the initial verso with parts of 2 lines each of text and of music on a 4-line red stave. Large miniature in the style of the Neapolitan illuminator Cristoforo Majorana documented in Naples from 1480 until 1492 cf. F. Avril Dix siecles d'enluminure italienne 1984 pp. 176-7 no. 156. The standing kinds are painted with splendid robes fringed with pearls. The blue flecked border giving the effect of the whole initial hovering above the vellum derived from the classicising illumination of Mantua and Padua and became a feature of Neapolitan manuscripts of the late fifteenth century. late 15th century. A cutting hardcover books
