[Rarebooks] Early Books and Illumination

[Dennis Melhouse]

1.      British Museum. Department of Manuscripts.  CATALOGUS CODICUM 
MANUSCRIPTORUM ORIENTALIUM QUI INI MUSEO BRITANNICO ASSERVANTUR. London: 
British Museum, 1838-1847 and 1852. Four volumes. Folio. Bound in boards 
woth paper cover labels, Pars II, Continuatio bound in cloth and boards. A 
few corners bumped, else about fine.   (7368)        $500.00

2.      Ebersolt, Jean.  LA MINIATURE BYZANTINE. Paris: Librairie Nationale 
d'Art et d'Histoire, 1926. xiii, 110p. 72 plates. Folio. Bound in half 
morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., original wrappers bound 
in, gilt spine titles and ornaments in the panels. Leather surface chipping 
at joints, front hinge cracked but holding, black spot on lower cover, 
moderate wear, but quite sound, contents fine.   (11017)        $400.00

3.      Friend, A.M., ed.  STUDIES IN MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION. Princeton: 
Princeton University Press, 1947-79. Eight volumes. Each volume with text 
and illustrations. 4to. Gilt-titled black cloth. All fine in VG to fine 
d.j. - Vol. II lacking jacket. I: Goldschmidt. An Early Manuscript of the 
Aesop Fables of Avianus and Related Manuscripts; II: Weitzmann. 
Illustrations in Roll and Codex; III: Weitzmann. The Joshua Roll; IV: 
Weitzmann. Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art; V: Martin. The Illustration of 
the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus; VI: Galavaris. The Illustrations of 
the Liturgical Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenus; VII: Kessler. The 
Illustrated Bibles from Tours; VIII: Wietzmann. The Miniatures of the Sacra 
Parallela. (10741)      $1250.00

4.      Guntherova, Alzbeta and Misianik, Jan.  ILLUMINERTE HANDSCHRIFTEN 
UAS DER SLOWAKEI. Czechoslovakia: Artia, 1962. 175p. Illustrated in color 
and b&w. 4to. Gilt-titled red cloth with gilt design on a brown ground on 
upper cover. Fine in VG d.j.   (10921)    $125.00

5.      Masson, Irvine.  THE MAINZ PSALTERS AND CANON MISSAE 1457-1459. 
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1954. First edition. . viii, 72p. + 6 
tables and 6 plates of facsimiles, 2 in color. Folio. Black-titled tan 
linen spine over boards. Fine.   (10759)      $200.00

6.      Morison, Stanley. GERMAN INCUNABULA IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM ONE 
HUNDRED & FIFTY-TWO FACSIMILE PLATES OF FINE BOOK-PAGES FROM PRESSES OF 
GERMANY, GERMAN-SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY PRINTED IN THE FIFTEENTH 
CENTURY IN GOTHIC LETTER AND DERIVED FOUNTS. London: Victory Gollancz, 
1928.. Limited to 398 copies in English. [iv], 26p, 150 facsimile plates, 
Large folio.  Gilt-titled black cloth. Some occasional foxing, else 
internally clean, covers VG, in poor d.j.  (12884)  $300.00

7.      Rosenthal, Erwin.  THE ILLUMINATIONS OF THE VERGILIUS ROMANUS (Cod. 
Vat. Lat. 3867), A STYLISTIC AND ICONOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS. Zurich: Urs 
Graf-Verlag, (1972). First edition. . 118p. Illustrated. 4to. Linen cloth 
with red titles. Page edges just slightly faded, else fine in VG- 
d.j.   (10958)    $100.00

8.      Seler, Eduard.  COMINTARIOS AL CODICE BORGIA. Mexico: Fondo de 
Cultura Economica, (1963). First edition in Spanish. . Three volumes. 
Includes the complete codex in color. Oblong 4to's. Gray cloth with titles 
and designs in red, black, and gilt. Slightest rubbing to spines, else fine 
in worn slipcase.   (10847) $250.00

9.      Strzygowski, Josef.  DIE MINIATUREN DES SERBISCHEN PSALTERS DER 
KONIGL. HOF- UND STAATSBIBLIOTHEK IN MUNCHEN. Wien: 1906. LXXXVII, 139p, 60 
plates. 4to. Gilt-titled tan cloth over paper-covered boards. Some rubbing, 
about VG.   (10972)     $200.00

10.     Weitzmann, Kurt.  ANCIENT BOOK ILLUMINATION. Cambridge: Harvard 
University Press, 1959. First edition. xiv, 166p., 64 plates. 8vo. 
Gilt-titled blue cloth. Fine in d.j.  (10920)        $100.00



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