Lot 282
Roxburghe Club - Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Interest
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Roxburghe Club - Wagner, A., Barker, N. and Payne, A. Medieval Pageant (Writhe's Garter Book). London: The Roxburghe Club, 1993. Folio, 78 pages of plates, mostly coloured, original quarter leather, with vellum corners, some very faint soiling to covers; Roxburghe Club - Alexander, Jonathan et al. (Editors). The York gospels. London: The Roxburghe Club, 1986. Folio, facsimile copies of pages of the illuminated manuscripts, some in colour, original red quarter red leather gilt, some slight soiling to cloth; Roxburghe Club - [Spencer, Eleanor]. The Sobieski book of hours. London: The Roxburghe Club, 1977. Folio, 8 colour plates and 98 in greyscale of pages of illuminated manuscript, original burgundy quarter morocco; Willemsen, Carl Arnold. Frederick II. De arte venandi cum avibus. Graz: Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt, 1969. Folio, 2 volumes, text commentary and colour facsimile of illuminated manuscript, commentary is quarter suede, facsimile volume is full suede with hand written vellum label to front cover, quarter suede slipcase with gilt vellum label; Grasi, Luigi. Il Libro dei disegni di Jacopo Palma il Giovane… Rome: Ediziono dell'Elefante, 1968. Folio, 56 plates, many coloured, numbered copy 67, original yellow cloth, slipcase soiled and splitting; Braunfels, Wolfgang (Editor). The Lorsch gospels. New York: George Braziller, [1967]. Folio, facsimile copies of pages of the illuminated manuscripts, many in colour, number 788 of 1000 copies, introduction in original wrappers, red cloth quarter vellum gilt, some slight soiling to cloth (7)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire