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	[ONGANIA (FERD.)] A Glance at the Grimani Breviary Preserved in S. Markâ€™s Library, Venice. Ferd. Ongania Publisher, [Venice]. 1906. small 4to, from the library of S.C. Cockerell with his signature, also a note in Dr Wrightâ€™s hand says that he bought this volume from Bernard Quaritch in 1945, several short notes in Cockerellâ€™s hand, one of 500 copies, frontis., with 2 coloured reproductions of the binding, 4 coloured and 110 plain plates, orig. velvet binding, gilt stamp on upper cover, uncut, t.e.g. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 US$ 208.25 \| JP¥ 18525] Book number: 17481 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	AMEISENOWA (ZOFIA) Kodeks BaltazaraBehema. Oficyna Wydawnicza W Warszawie, Auriga. 1961. 48pp., 60 plates (some coloured), orig. decorated boards. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.32 \| JP¥ 2075] Book number: 18794 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BERKOVITS (ILONA) Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus. Corvina Press, Budapest. 1964. First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 48 coloured plates, orig. cloth. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 14695 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BERKOVITS (ILONA) Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus. Corvina Press, Budapest. 1964. First Edition, 4to, 48 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. The Bibliotheca Corviniana which Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-1490), collected in his Buda palace was one of the largest and most magnificent libraries of the times. Out of the original Corvinian collection 43 manuscripts and two incunabula are preserved in Hungary, and the present work is a discussion of them. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 \| JP¥ 6669] Book number: 16215 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BÃ‰VENOT (MAURICE) The Tradition of Manuscripts; A Study in the Transmission of St. Cyprianâ€™s Treatise. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1961. First Edition, orig. cloth. This book should be of interest not only to patristic scholars concerned with the text of Cyprian, but also to all those who have to do with the problems of reconstructing an ancient text from Western manuscripts in a heavily contaminated tradition. GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 \| JP¥ 4150] Book number: 11978 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BÃ‰VENOT (MAURICE) The Tradition of Manuscripts; A Study in the Transmission of St. Cyprianâ€™s Treatise. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1961. First Edition, orig. cloth. This book should be of interest not only to patristic scholars concerned with the text of Cyprian, but also to all those who have to do with the problems of reconstructing an ancient text from Western manuscripts in a heavily contaminated tradition. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 \| JP¥ 4150] Book number: 17740 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BIRCH (WALTER DE GRAY) The History, Art and PalÃ¦ography of the Manuscript Styled the Utrecht Psalter. Samuel Bagster and Sons. 1876. First Edition, [vi],iii,[i],iv,[ii],xxiv,318,[2]+8pp., of adverts, with Dr Wrightâ€™s acquisition note in pencil, 3 large collotype folding plates, orig. cloth, gilt, head of spine slightly frayed. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 84.25 US$ 124.95 \| JP¥ 11115] Book number: 17798 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	ARBERRY (A.J.) MINOVI (M.) & BLOCHET (E.) The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures. Edited by the Late J.V.S. Wilkinson. Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd., Dublin. 1959-62. First Edition, 3 vols., folio, coloured frontispieces, 125 plates, fore-edges slightly spotted, orig. red buckram. This sumptuously produced catalogue describes and illustrates what is undoubtedly one of the finest collections of Persian manuscripts and miniatures. That a private library formed during a single lifetime should rival university and national collections is remarkable. GBP 1675.00 [Appr.: EURO 1876.25 US$ 2790.55 \| JP¥ 248232] Book number: 20455 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BOECKLER (ALBERT) Deutsche Buchmalerei Vorgotischer Zeit. Karl Robert Langewiesche, Nachfolger. 1959. First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., facsimiles throughout (some coloured, orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 14728 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BOECKLER (ALBERT) Das Goldene Evangelienbuch Heinrichs III. Verein FÃ¼r Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin. 1933. First Edition, folio, 92pp., presentation inscription, 3 coloured plates, and 218 other reproductions in photogravure, orig. cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. The plates are numbered from 1 to 219, but plate 2 was never issued. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 123.25 US$ 183.26 \| JP¥ 16302] Book number: 23374 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BRADLEY (JOHN W.) Illuminated Manuscripts. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1920. Second Edition, 12mo, coloured frontis., 21 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 14977 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BRADLEY (JOHN W.) The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist, with Notices of his Contemporaries, and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century. Bernard Quaritch. 1891. First Edition, small 4to, one of 300 copies, signed and dated by Dr Wright, with notes by him in the text, frontis., 17 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice copy. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 US$ 324.87 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 17484 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	COCKERELL (SYDNEY CARLYLE) A Psalter and Hours Executed Before 1270 for a Lady Connected with St. Louis, Probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, Now in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson... with Photographs of all the Miniatures by Emery Walke Printed at the Chiswick Press. 1905. Large oblong 4to, 36pp., double-column text, 25 plates, each with a reproduction of 2 MS pages, title printed in red and black, presentation inscription â€œTo T.H. Riches with infinite thanks from Sydney Cockerell Feb. 5, 1919â€, with the armorial bookplate of Charles Travis Clay, free endpapers browned, orig. green roan-backed printed boards. The text considers the MS in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in the BibliothÃ¨que Nationale in Paris. Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmsott Press 1891-6, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1908-37, partner with Sir Emery Walker in process engraving business.Blackman (1866-1947), distinguished plant physiologist, succeeded Sir Francis Darwin in the readership in botany in Cambridge, became FRS (1906), etc. He was for many years a syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum during Cockerellâ€™s long directorship. GBP 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.25 US$ 624.75 \| JP¥ 55574] Book number: 24663 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BECK COLLECTION. The Beck Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts. Sothebyâ€™s. 1997. 4to, 261pp., price list loosely inserted, numerous coloured illustrs., orig. decorated cloth, 34 lots. The 25 Western manuscripts, plus sundry items, formed by Helmut Beck of Stuttgart sold for a total of more than Â£11 million. From the library of Pierre BerÃ¨s. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 24032 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	MILLER (DOROTHY) COMPILER. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art... Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1949. First Edition, 4to, xii,85pp., coloured frontis., 80 plates, orig. printed wrappers. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 18895 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DEMBOWSKI (HERMANN) Initium Sancti Evangelii. Initialen der FrÃ¼hen Buchmalerei. F. Lometsch, Kassel. 1959. First Edition, frontis., 21 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 14973 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DODWELL (C.R.) The Great Lambeth Bible. Faber and Faber Ltd. 1959. First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 17395 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DODWELL (C.R.) The Great Lambeth Bible. With an Introduction and Notes. Faber and Faber Ltd. 1959. First Edition, 4to, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 \| JP¥ 4150] Book number: 17787 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	HOLKHAM LIBRARY. DOREZ (LÃ‰ON) Les Manuscrits a Peintures de la BibliothÃ¨que de Lord Leicester a Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Choix de Miniatures et de Reliures publiÃ© sous les auspices de lâ€™AcadÃ©mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et de la SociÃ©tÃ© des Bibliophiles FranÃ§ois par LÃ Ernest Leroux, Paris. 1908. Folio, [vi],108pp., 60 fine full-page collotype plates, some intermittent foxing as is usual with this book, this copy printed for presentation to the Baron de Barante and so designated, cont. quarter blue morocco, marbled paper boards, uncut, a nice copy. A very scarce work dealing with twenty-one of the illuminated manuscripts from the magnificent Holkham collection.â€œOne of the most important private collections of books and manuscripts in the United Kingdom... There is no printed catalogue of the Holkham manuscripts, although one has one has been compiled by Roscoe and one by Dorez.â€â€”De Ricci.Sir Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, travelled extensively on the Continent from 1712 to 1718 and purchased over 600 manuscripts; these came largely from the collection of Giuseppe Valletta at Naples and from the library of San Giovanni in Verdara at Padua. The Greek manuscripts of the Giustiniani library at Venice were obtained en bloc in 1721. The library still remains at Holkham and was largely added to by Thomas William Coke, his grand nephew. De Ricci, pp. 42-43. GBP 745.00 [Appr.: EURO 834.5 US$ 1241.17 \| JP¥ 110408] Book number: 24482 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DURRIEU (COMTE PAUL) La Miniature Flamande au Temps de la Cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530). G. van Oest, Brussels and Paris. 1921. Large 4to, with the bookplate of The Society of Antiquaries, 153 reproductions of miniatures on 103 plates, cont. buckram. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 245.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.5 US$ 408.17 \| JP¥ 36309] Book number: 17624 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DURRIEU (COMTE PAUL) La Miniature Flamande au Temps de la Cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530). G. van Oest, Brussels and Paris. 1921. Large 4to, one of 25 copies on de-luxe paper, from the library of Dr John Armstrong, 153 reproductions of miniatures on 103 plates, later buckram, leather label on spine. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 308.25 US$ 458.15 \| JP¥ 40755] Book number: 19639 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	CARTA (F.) CIPOLLA (C.) & FRATI (C.) Monumenta Palaeographica Sacra: Atlante Paleografico-Artistico Compilato sui Manoscritti Esposti in Torino alla Mostra dÂ´arte Sacra nel MDCCCXCVIII... Fratelli Bocca, Turin. 1899. Large folio, [ii],viii,72,[2]pp., 120 full-page plates, buckram, label on spine, uncut. GBP 365.00 [Appr.: EURO 409 US$ 608.09 \| JP¥ 54092] Book number: 21940 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	FREEMAN (MARGARET B.) Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry. Introduction by James J. Rorimer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [1958]. First Edition, 32 facsimile pages printed in gold and colour in the same size as the originals, imitation vellum, gilt, slip-case. In 1954 this priceless Book of Hours was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr James J. Rorimer, Director of the Museum at the time, has written an introduction outlining the history of the Belles Heures, and there are notes on each plate by Margaret B. Freeman. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.25 US$ 58.31 \| JP¥ 5187] Book number: 18804 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	FRIEDL (ANTONIN) Kodex Gigas. Cesky Iluminovany Rukopis Romansky v Kralovske Knihovne ve Stokholmu. Emporium, Prague. 1929. First Edition, 4to, signed by Dr Wright, frontis., 36 plates, quarter morocco, a nice copy. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 US$ 208.25 \| JP¥ 18525] Book number: 17425 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	GOLDSCHMIDT (ADOLPH) German Illumination. The Pantheon, Florence. 1928. First Edition, 2 vols., folio, bookplate on pastedowns, 200 collotype plates each preceded by descriptive text, orig. cloth, spines gilt. Translated from the German, this work is a standard reference because of the two hundred excellent plates. Volume 1 deals with the Carolingian period, volume 2 with Ottonian. GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 US$ 324.87 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 20992 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.

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	[ONGANIA (FERD.)] A Glance at the Grimani Breviary Preserved in S. Markâ€™s Library, Venice. Ferd. Ongania Publisher, [Venice]. 1906. small 4to, from the library of S.C. Cockerell with his signature, also a note in Dr Wrightâ€™s hand says that he bought this volume from Bernard Quaritch in 1945, several short notes in Cockerellâ€™s hand, one of 500 copies, frontis., with 2 coloured reproductions of the binding, 4 coloured and 110 plain plates, orig. velvet binding, gilt stamp on upper cover, uncut, t.e.g. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 US$ 208.25 \| JP¥ 18525] Book number: 17481 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	AMEISENOWA (ZOFIA) Kodeks BaltazaraBehema. Oficyna Wydawnicza W Warszawie, Auriga. 1961. 48pp., 60 plates (some coloured), orig. decorated boards. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.32 \| JP¥ 2075] Book number: 18794 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BERKOVITS (ILONA) Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus. Corvina Press, Budapest. 1964. First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 48 coloured plates, orig. cloth. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 14695 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BERKOVITS (ILONA) Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus. Corvina Press, Budapest. 1964. First Edition, 4to, 48 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. The Bibliotheca Corviniana which Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-1490), collected in his Buda palace was one of the largest and most magnificent libraries of the times. Out of the original Corvinian collection 43 manuscripts and two incunabula are preserved in Hungary, and the present work is a discussion of them. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 \| JP¥ 6669] Book number: 16215 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BÃ‰VENOT (MAURICE) The Tradition of Manuscripts; A Study in the Transmission of St. Cyprianâ€™s Treatise. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1961. First Edition, orig. cloth. This book should be of interest not only to patristic scholars concerned with the text of Cyprian, but also to all those who have to do with the problems of reconstructing an ancient text from Western manuscripts in a heavily contaminated tradition. GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 \| JP¥ 4150] Book number: 11978 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BÃ‰VENOT (MAURICE) The Tradition of Manuscripts; A Study in the Transmission of St. Cyprianâ€™s Treatise. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1961. First Edition, orig. cloth. This book should be of interest not only to patristic scholars concerned with the text of Cyprian, but also to all those who have to do with the problems of reconstructing an ancient text from Western manuscripts in a heavily contaminated tradition. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 \| JP¥ 4150] Book number: 17740 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BIRCH (WALTER DE GRAY) The History, Art and PalÃ¦ography of the Manuscript Styled the Utrecht Psalter. Samuel Bagster and Sons. 1876. First Edition, [vi],iii,[i],iv,[ii],xxiv,318,[2]+8pp., of adverts, with Dr Wrightâ€™s acquisition note in pencil, 3 large collotype folding plates, orig. cloth, gilt, head of spine slightly frayed. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 84.25 US$ 124.95 \| JP¥ 11115] Book number: 17798 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	ARBERRY (A.J.) MINOVI (M.) & BLOCHET (E.) The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures. Edited by the Late J.V.S. Wilkinson. Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd., Dublin. 1959-62. First Edition, 3 vols., folio, coloured frontispieces, 125 plates, fore-edges slightly spotted, orig. red buckram. This sumptuously produced catalogue describes and illustrates what is undoubtedly one of the finest collections of Persian manuscripts and miniatures. That a private library formed during a single lifetime should rival university and national collections is remarkable. GBP 1675.00 [Appr.: EURO 1876.25 US$ 2790.55 \| JP¥ 248232] Book number: 20455 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BOECKLER (ALBERT) Deutsche Buchmalerei Vorgotischer Zeit. Karl Robert Langewiesche, Nachfolger. 1959. First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., facsimiles throughout (some coloured, orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 14728 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BOECKLER (ALBERT) Das Goldene Evangelienbuch Heinrichs III. Verein FÃ¼r Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin. 1933. First Edition, folio, 92pp., presentation inscription, 3 coloured plates, and 218 other reproductions in photogravure, orig. cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. The plates are numbered from 1 to 219, but plate 2 was never issued. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 123.25 US$ 183.26 \| JP¥ 16302] Book number: 23374 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BRADLEY (JOHN W.) Illuminated Manuscripts. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1920. Second Edition, 12mo, coloured frontis., 21 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 14977 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BRADLEY (JOHN W.) The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist, with Notices of his Contemporaries, and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century. Bernard Quaritch. 1891. First Edition, small 4to, one of 300 copies, signed and dated by Dr Wright, with notes by him in the text, frontis., 17 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice copy. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 US$ 324.87 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 17484 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	COCKERELL (SYDNEY CARLYLE) A Psalter and Hours Executed Before 1270 for a Lady Connected with St. Louis, Probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, Now in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson... with Photographs of all the Miniatures by Emery Walke Printed at the Chiswick Press. 1905. Large oblong 4to, 36pp., double-column text, 25 plates, each with a reproduction of 2 MS pages, title printed in red and black, presentation inscription â€œTo T.H. Riches with infinite thanks from Sydney Cockerell Feb. 5, 1919â€, with the armorial bookplate of Charles Travis Clay, free endpapers browned, orig. green roan-backed printed boards. The text considers the MS in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in the BibliothÃ¨que Nationale in Paris. Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmsott Press 1891-6, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1908-37, partner with Sir Emery Walker in process engraving business.Blackman (1866-1947), distinguished plant physiologist, succeeded Sir Francis Darwin in the readership in botany in Cambridge, became FRS (1906), etc. He was for many years a syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum during Cockerellâ€™s long directorship. GBP 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.25 US$ 624.75 \| JP¥ 55574] Book number: 24663 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	BECK COLLECTION. The Beck Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts. Sothebyâ€™s. 1997. 4to, 261pp., price list loosely inserted, numerous coloured illustrs., orig. decorated cloth, 34 lots. The 25 Western manuscripts, plus sundry items, formed by Helmut Beck of Stuttgart sold for a total of more than Â£11 million. From the library of Pierre BerÃ¨s. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 24032 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	MILLER (DOROTHY) COMPILER. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art... Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1949. First Edition, 4to, xii,85pp., coloured frontis., 80 plates, orig. printed wrappers. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 18895 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DEMBOWSKI (HERMANN) Initium Sancti Evangelii. Initialen der FrÃ¼hen Buchmalerei. F. Lometsch, Kassel. 1959. First Edition, frontis., 21 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 14973 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DODWELL (C.R.) The Great Lambeth Bible. Faber and Faber Ltd. 1959. First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 17395 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DODWELL (C.R.) The Great Lambeth Bible. With an Introduction and Notes. Faber and Faber Ltd. 1959. First Edition, 4to, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 \| JP¥ 4150] Book number: 17787 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	HOLKHAM LIBRARY. DOREZ (LÃ‰ON) Les Manuscrits a Peintures de la BibliothÃ¨que de Lord Leicester a Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Choix de Miniatures et de Reliures publiÃ© sous les auspices de lâ€™AcadÃ©mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et de la SociÃ©tÃ© des Bibliophiles FranÃ§ois par LÃ Ernest Leroux, Paris. 1908. Folio, [vi],108pp., 60 fine full-page collotype plates, some intermittent foxing as is usual with this book, this copy printed for presentation to the Baron de Barante and so designated, cont. quarter blue morocco, marbled paper boards, uncut, a nice copy. A very scarce work dealing with twenty-one of the illuminated manuscripts from the magnificent Holkham collection.â€œOne of the most important private collections of books and manuscripts in the United Kingdom... There is no printed catalogue of the Holkham manuscripts, although one has one has been compiled by Roscoe and one by Dorez.â€â€”De Ricci.Sir Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, travelled extensively on the Continent from 1712 to 1718 and purchased over 600 manuscripts; these came largely from the collection of Giuseppe Valletta at Naples and from the library of San Giovanni in Verdara at Padua. The Greek manuscripts of the Giustiniani library at Venice were obtained en bloc in 1721. The library still remains at Holkham and was largely added to by Thomas William Coke, his grand nephew. De Ricci, pp. 42-43. GBP 745.00 [Appr.: EURO 834.5 US$ 1241.17 \| JP¥ 110408] Book number: 24482 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DURRIEU (COMTE PAUL) La Miniature Flamande au Temps de la Cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530). G. van Oest, Brussels and Paris. 1921. Large 4to, with the bookplate of The Society of Antiquaries, 153 reproductions of miniatures on 103 plates, cont. buckram. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 245.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.5 US$ 408.17 \| JP¥ 36309] Book number: 17624 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	DURRIEU (COMTE PAUL) La Miniature Flamande au Temps de la Cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530). G. van Oest, Brussels and Paris. 1921. Large 4to, one of 25 copies on de-luxe paper, from the library of Dr John Armstrong, 153 reproductions of miniatures on 103 plates, later buckram, leather label on spine. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 308.25 US$ 458.15 \| JP¥ 40755] Book number: 19639 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	CARTA (F.) CIPOLLA (C.) & FRATI (C.) Monumenta Palaeographica Sacra: Atlante Paleografico-Artistico Compilato sui Manoscritti Esposti in Torino alla Mostra dÂ´arte Sacra nel MDCCCXCVIII... Fratelli Bocca, Turin. 1899. Large folio, [ii],viii,72,[2]pp., 120 full-page plates, buckram, label on spine, uncut. GBP 365.00 [Appr.: EURO 409 US$ 608.09 \| JP¥ 54092] Book number: 21940 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	FREEMAN (MARGARET B.) Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry. Introduction by James J. Rorimer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [1958]. First Edition, 32 facsimile pages printed in gold and colour in the same size as the originals, imitation vellum, gilt, slip-case. In 1954 this priceless Book of Hours was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr James J. Rorimer, Director of the Museum at the time, has written an introduction outlining the history of the Belles Heures, and there are notes on each plate by Margaret B. Freeman. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.25 US$ 58.31 \| JP¥ 5187] Book number: 18804 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	FRIEDL (ANTONIN) Kodex Gigas. Cesky Iluminovany Rukopis Romansky v Kralovske Knihovne ve Stokholmu. Emporium, Prague. 1929. First Edition, 4to, signed by Dr Wright, frontis., 36 plates, quarter morocco, a nice copy. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 US$ 208.25 \| JP¥ 18525] Book number: 17425 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.
	GOLDSCHMIDT (ADOLPH) German Illumination. The Pantheon, Florence. 1928. First Edition, 2 vols., folio, bookplate on pastedowns, 200 collotype plates each preceded by descriptive text, orig. cloth, spines gilt. Translated from the German, this work is a standard reference because of the two hundred excellent plates. Volume 1 deals with the Carolingian period, volume 2 with Ottonian. GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 US$ 324.87 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 20992 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books.