Fine Books & Manuscripts
Catalog Information: 273 lots with images
Viewing Notes:
12 Dec 2008 10:00-17:00 New York 13 Dec 2008 10:00-17:00 New York 14 Dec 2008 12:00-17:00 New York 15 Dec 2008 10:00-12:00 New York
Lot 2000: [ASTRONOMY.]
ANDREAS VERONENSIS. Tabula Pascalis diuersarum variationum temporum. Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 19 May 1488. [6] leaves. Contents: author’s address to Antonio Alabanti, Prior General of the Servite Fathers (1r); colophon (4v); 5r blank; [...more]
Lot 2001: [BIBLE IN BOHEMIAN.]
ESTELLE DOHENY'S CZECH BIBLE, 1506.Biblii Czeska.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 5 December 1506. 562 leaves (only, of 570 including one blank). Xylographic title-page, featuring two angels partially hand-colored. Woodcut-frame to Jerome's preface ( [...more]
Lot 2002: [ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT—15TH CENTURY.]
BOOK OF HOURS, WRITTEN THROUGHOUT IN SILVER INK.Illuminated Latin manuscript on vellum. [Southern Netherlands, probably Bruges: third quarter of the 15th century]. 104 leaves (only), some catchwords, 13 lines per page, written in liquid silver paint [...more]
Lot 2003: [ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.]
Single illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, 172 x 127 mm, [Paris, circa 1475], attributed to the workshop of the Master of Jacques de Besançon, from a Book of Hours, with a large miniature depicting King David kneeling before the Holy Spirit in the [...more]
Lot 2004: LIVIUS, TITUS. 59 B.C.–17 A.D.
Latinae Historiae principis quicquid hactenus suit aeditum.... Basil: Froeben, 1531. *4, a-t6, u8, aa-tt6, uu8, aaa-qqq6, rrr4, sss6; A-F6, G4, H-K6, L8, AA, BB6, CC4. Printer's woodcut device to title-page and colophons, some woodcut initials by Han [...more]
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