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Title: Catalogue of an Interesting Portion of the Valuable Collection of Illuminated and Other Manuscripts and Early Printed Books with Woodcuts, the Property of a Gentleman in Austro-Hungary
Description: London, Dryden Press, 1900. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this Sotheby's catalogue, with seventeen plates portraying the illuminated manuscripts up for sale. This very scarce catalogue published by Sotheby's lists a range of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books up for auction on June 20th 1900. With seventeen plates of facsimiles and artwork to the rear. The volume includes the conditions of sale, a list of the items, and seventeen plates of facsimiles to the rear. The catalogue lists a copy of Le Livre des Trois Vertus, or the Books of Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan, the court writer for King Charles VI of France in the thirteenth century. It also includes illuminated manuscript from Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, or The Book of Hours, which was a personal prayer book. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, a little worn. The front wrap is detached, and both the front and rear wraps are rather foxed. Internally, generally firmly bound. Whilst the plates are bright and clean, the text pages are lightly foxed. Fair . Ill.: None. Fair .

Keywords: Sotheby's Catalogue of Illuminated and other Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Sotheby's Catalogues Early Printed Books Illustrated Sotheby's Catalogues Very Scarce None


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