[Rarebooks] FS: 19th c. French & Latin Book of Hours

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(CATHOLIC CHURCH) PAROISSIEN ROMAIN D'APRES LES IMPRIMES FRANCAIS DU XVme SIECLE. Paris: Gruel et Engelmann. 1858. Sm. 8vo. 704pp. Double column parallel text in Latin and French. Engraved title page and colophon. Each page of text within an historiated woodcut border (there are 32 different iterations of the border). Finely bound in elaborately blind tooled dark brown morocco with vignettes on covers done in 15th century style. Gilt dentelles and silk endpapers. Silver clasps at fore-edge. Barely noticeable tiny repaired chip at foot of spine. A.e.g. A fine copy.	$1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The reproduced illustrations are from 15th c. works by Simon Vostre, Antoine Verard, and Thielman Kerver, etc.


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