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Lencker's Perspectiva – Didactic Manual Including a Special Instrument, 1571
Hans Lencker €12000.00Full woodcut border on title, 1 double-page and 10 full-page woodcuts. Modern brown Morocco binding with gilt title on spine309 x 211 mmRead more -
The Miracles that Ended a Russian Plague, 1771
€68000.00Illuminated manuscript on paper, written in brown ink with rubrics in red. Ornamental title-border in contemporary colours, and 2 full-page inserted decorated water-colour drawings in pen and ink. Binding: Contemporary dark brown full calf over wooden boards206 x 168 mm. 212 leaves total.Read more -
Two Chronicles of Bavarian Nobility in Original, Gilt Ottheinrich Binding, 1550-1553
€86000.00Two texts in one codex, both written by the same scribe in brown, red, and purple ink in a 16th-century German Cursiva. Some 20th-century notes added in pencil. Original dated binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards. Gilt and blind stamped, presumably by the court binder Jörg Bernhardt, dated 1553. Covers panelled by blind fillets and Moses roll tool, lozenge formed by putti stamp. Gilt central panel stamp on upper cover showing a portrait of Ottheinrich with a second panel, with gilt legend: OTTHAINRICH VON·G C / PFALTZGRAVE BEY RHEIN / HERTZOG IN NIDERN UND / OBERN : BAIRN.315 x 220 mm, 183 leavesRead more -
A Formidable Choir Book in its Original Binding, 1550
€75000.00Illuminated manuscript on vellum, initials alternately in red or blue, with 24 initials painted or with filigree pen-flourishes, and 15 historiated initials of varying sizes on gold ground. Binding: Original 16th century dark brown calf over wooden board binding, 540 x 385 mm, blind-stamped with central- and side-bosses on front cover, with two additional bosses on rear cover, corner copper pieces on both sides stamped with ornamental motifs edge guards on tail. (Lamb of Christ, initials HIS), spiked to protect and to balance the volume in use.510 x 375 mm, 187 leavesRead more
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Christ Giving Communion to His Disciples, 1320-1330
circle of Vanni di Baldolo or the Maestro Espressivo di Santa Chiara €18000.00Miniature. Tempera, ink and gold on vellum.Leaf: 370 x 250 mm; initial: 70 x 70 mm.Read more -
God speaks to the people of Israel, c. 1270
Masters of the Primo Stile Bolognese €9000.00Miniature. Tempera, ink and gold on vellum.Leaf: 354 x 230 mm; initial: 80 x 47 mm.Read more -
Medieval Astrology in a First Edition, 9 January 1489
€75000.00Incunable207 x 147 mm. – 110 leaves. With 40 horoscopes, 14 diagrams, and 85 woodcut illustrations, two of the diagrams coloured in red and black.Read more -
11th-century decorated initial Q, c. 1080-1100
€18000.00Single leaf, ink and tempera on vellum455 x 355 mmRead more
