Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Dark olive morocco, gold foil on burgundy title panel on front cover, spine panel lettered in gold foil. As issued. Tan cloth slipcase as issued. 279 pp., 126 color plates, additional color, b&w photographs. A lovely production. Text in German.
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Book of Hours Calendar - 1954

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, The Palindrome Press : 1954

Seller ID: 038415

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff color pictorial wraps, oblong format. Some creasing to corners and rubbed joints, interior fully intact. One leaf per half-month, thus 24 pp., each with a full color illuminated manuscript illustration. Unusual.
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European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art -- I: Italian Drawings

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1942

Seller ID: 007933

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

56 of 60 plates (lacking #s 16, 32, 33, 34, and title leaf providing publication information), each measuring approx. 10.5" x 14", housed in original unbound portfolio case. Light blue paper covered boards, cloth back strip, paper titlel label, silk ribbon closure. Front board detached but present. Ex-library, with soiled case showing typical library markings. Plate #1 shows perforation stamp; all others (55 of 59) are clean and unmarked. Undated, ca. 1942. Quite scarce. Exterior presents as Good; plates (contents) solid Near Fine. Artists included here: Aspertini, Bartolommeo, Bassano, Canale...
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Fifty Mediaeval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, H. P. Kraus : 1958

Seller ID: 038462

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Tan natural linen, lettered in gilt. xii,168 pp., 84 color illus. on 32 tipped-in plates, 6 line engravings in text, 109 halftones on 52 plates. Dampstaining evident at heel of spine, wrapping onto bottom binding corners of both covers, visible also on a portion of bottom text block edge and along bottom edges of most supplemental plates (pp. 121-168) at rear of volume, entirely cosmetic. Former owner's signature and date inked on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked.
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Fra' Beato Angelico

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Milan, Italy, Roberto Hoesch

Seller ID: 044738

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Small-format portfolio containing (12) 8 1/4" x 6" oaktag plates with color pastedown illustrations providing reproductions and details of the artist's most famous works. Captioned in Italian. Mounts intact, spotting to rear cover of portfolio case. No. 2 in a series.
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Gothic Art 1360-1440: A Missal for a King [1963 Exhibition Catalogue]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art : 1963

Seller ID: 036061

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Booklet, stiff color illus. wraps. Paginated 157-216, continuous, complete as issued, illus. w/ 4 color plates, many additional b&w illus., catalogue of 110 works at rear. Mild soiling to covers. "An introduction to the Gotha Missal and a catalogue to the exhibition" mounted at Cleveland in 1963. Exceptionally scarce.
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Hieronymus Bosch

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hoo, Rochester, Kent, U.K., Grange Books : 2005

Seller ID: 028218

ISBN-13: 9781840136579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Color illus. paper covered boards. As issued. 80 pp., 56 color illus.
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Immagini Dagli Elenchi Telefonici (1988)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Turin, Italy, Edizioni Seat : 1988

Seller ID: 050305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Black cloth, lettered in white. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. 199 pp., color photographs. Text in Italian.
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Italian Manuscript Painting 1300-1550 [1984-85 Morgan Library exhibition catalogue]

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, J. Pierpont Morgan Library : 1984

Seller ID: 038401

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Fine

Booklet, royal blue illus. wraps. As issued. Catalogue to accompany 1984-85 Morgan Library exhibition. [36] pp., 60 catalogued entries, many illus. (b&w).
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John G. Johnson Collection: Catalogue of Flemish and Dutch Paintings

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art : 1972

Seller ID: 025483

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Burgundy cloth, lettered in gold foil, front cover color pastedown illus. Essentially as issued. Former owner's address label mounted on front flyleaf. vi,330 pp., illus. in color, b&w.
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Raffaello Sanzio

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Milan, Italy, Roberto Hoesch

Seller ID: 044739

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Small-format portfolio containing (12) 8 1/4" x 6" oaktag plates with color pastedown illustrations providing reproductions and details of the artist's most famous works. Captioned in Italian. Mounts intact, minor toning to outer portfolio case. No. 1 in a series.
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The Printed Sources of Western Art 4: Albrecht Durer - Underweysung der Messung

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, Collegium Graphicum : 1972

Seller ID: 057422

ISBN: B000QBRZ88

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

SOFTCOVER, stiff light blue wraps. Slightly rubbed joints, minor bump to top front corner. Lacks slipcase. Square, uncreased binding, clean and unmarked interior. Facsimile reprint. Illus.
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The Renaissance Engravers, 15th-16th Century: Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Sirrocco/Confidential Concepts : 2003

Seller ID: 002739

ISBN-13: 9781904310501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1st English language edition. 255 pp., illus. w/ 125 masterpieces of engraving from the 15th and 16th centuries. As issued, light shop wear to real panel of dust jacket, now in archival mylar.
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Western Illuminated Manuscripts: The Property of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, and comprising the bequests of John Nicholas Brown and Louisa Dexter Sharpe Metcalf including the Ottobeuren Gradual and Sacramentary, circa 1164 and the so-called Psalter of the Prince d'Anjou, not later than 1537 from the collection of Horace Walpole [Sotheby Park Bernet auction, 18 May 1981]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. : 1981

Seller ID: 057721

ISBN: B000M1DJFU

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Softcover, stiff tan wraps, lettered in black. As issued. Sotheby Park Bernet auction, 18 May 1981. 119 pp., 19 lots, illus. w/ color plates, also b&w.
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Medieval Architecture [The Garland Library of the History of Art Vol. 4/IV/Four]

By: Ackerman, James S., Sumner McKnight Crosby, Horst W. Janson, Robert Rosenblum (editors); H. W. Janson (pref.); J. B. Ward-Perkins, Glanville Downey, Walter Horn, Richard Krautheimer, Jean Bony, Robert Branner, James S. Ackerman (essays)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, Garland Publishing : 1976

Seller ID: 046636

ISBN-13: 9780824024147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Red cloth, lettered in black. Minor rubbing along bottom edge. Firm binding, clean interior. [vii],268 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs, plans. Nine articles on various aspects of Medieval architectuure.
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Florestane the Troubadour: A Mediaeval Romance of Southern France

By: Addison, Julia de Wolf

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Dana Estes and Co. : 1903

Seller ID: 034834

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: VG+

Blue-gray cloth, lettered/illus. in orange, dark green and black. Light surface rubbing to front cover illus., cloth a bit rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Square, firm binding, clean interior. 307 pp. Nicely preserved copy with only slight cosmetic faults.
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Il Manierismo Olandese Hendrick Goltzius e i Suoi Allievi - stampe dalla collezione remondini

By: Alberton, Livia, and Vinco da Sesso (curators); Michiel Plomp

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Minchio-Bassano, Italy, Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa : 1990

Seller ID: 035571

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

White stiff wraps, lettered/illus. in black. Minor shelf wear. 1990 exhibition catalogue. 78 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates.
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Italian Drawings XVI to XVIII Century

By: Aldega, Marcello, and Margot Gordon

Price: $9.95

Publisher: De Luca Editore : 1987

Seller ID: 057700

ISBN: B00285KN16

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

White illus. boards. As issued. 110 pp., illus. w/ 50 plates. Catalogue to accompany 1988 exhibition in New York and Rome. Text in English and Italian.
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A Wreath for San Gemignano

By: Aldington, Richard

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce : 1945

Seller ID: 042795

ISBN: B0007DMXWS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Brown paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in gold foil. No designation of printing on copyright page, clearly a vintage issue but evidently not a first. 31 pp., illus. Essentially as issued. Illus. dust jacket is modestly soiled, otherwise only slight wear, now in mylar. Poetic homage to a Tuscan hill town destroyed in World War 2.
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The Decorated Letter

By: Alexander, J. J. G.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, George Braziller : 1978

Seller ID: 042350

ISBN-13: 9780807608951

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff gold color illus. wraps. Surface laminate slightly peeling along bottom rear edge, light foxing along text block fore-edge, otherwise as issued, with square, uncreased binding, clean interior beyond former owner's signature on half-title. 120 pp., illus. w/ 40 full-page color plates.
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

By: Alighieri, Dante; Jefferson Butler Fletcher (transl.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1933

Seller ID: 062612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. 2nd ptg.: Feb. 1933. Very minor shelf wear, text block edges a bit tanned by age. Firm binding, unmarked interior. xiii,471 pp., errata sheet tipped in at rear.
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Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and Their Inflence

By: Anderson, David (editor)

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Knoxville, TN, New Chaucer Society, University of Tennessee : 1987

Seller ID: 026072

ISBN-13: 9780933784086

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Stiff illus. wraps. Catalogue published to accompany 1986 exhibition at Arthur Ross Gallery and Rosenbach Museum and Library, opened on the occasion of the Fifth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, held in Philadelphia, 20-23 March 1986. Mild shelf/handling wear, slightly soiled covers. xviii,123 pp., illus. Scarce.
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Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and Their Inflence

By: Anderson, David (editor)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Knoxville, TN, New Chaucer Society, University of Tennessee : 1987

Seller ID: 032359

ISBN-13: 9780933784086

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff illus. wraps. Catalogue published to accompany 1986 exhibition at Arthur Ross Gallery and Rosenbach Museum and Library, opened on the occasion of the Fifth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, held in Philadelphia, 20-23 March 1986. Lightly soiled covers, w/ U of PA cover letter laid in. xviii,123 pp., illus. Scarce.
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Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies