Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

A LEAF FROM A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM "O INTEMERATA."

Northern France: ca. 1475.

Price: $1,500.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH 14 LARGE AND 27 SMALL MINIATURES.

USE OF ROME.

Northern France: late 15th or early 16th century.

Price: $78,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM CALENDAR LEAF FROM THE LLANGATTOCK BREVIARY.

TEXT FROM JULY AND AUGUST.

Italy [Ferrara]: 1441-48.

Price: $5,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN DUTCH, WITH A LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING PENTECOST.

TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Netherlands: ca. 1470-80.

Price: $10,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE OF KING DAVID AND THE PROPHET NATHAN.

TEXT FROM THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS.

Rouen: late 15th century.

Price: $5,500.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, WITH A MINIATURE OF PENTECOST.

TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

France: ca. 1490.

Price: $6,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A HYMNAL IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL.

WITH TEXT FROM "AVE MARIS STELLA."

Italy: 15th century.

Price: $5,500.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, RECOVERED FROM A BINDING.

WITH TEXT IN LATIN FROM THE "SENTENTIAE" OF PETER LOMBARD.

Germany(?): late 12th or early 13th century.

Price: $3,200.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A LARGE MINIATURE OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS.

TEXT FROM TERCE.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $5,500.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE MINIATURE OF THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN.

TEXT FROM COMPLINE.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $6,000.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN A NEAT HUMANIST HAND.

TEXT FROM LACTANTIUS' "DE OPIFICIO DEI."

Italy: 15th century.

Price: $2,250.00

A PARTIAL MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM AN ANTIPHONARY, RECOVERED FROM A BINDING.

TEXT IN LATIN.

Germany: 14th century.

Price: $400.00

(ST19350-013) WITH TEXT FROM THE END OF THE SANCTORAL AND BEGINNING OF THE COMMON OF...

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A NOTED MISSAL IN LATIN, RECOVERED FROM A BINDING.

WITH TEXT FROM THE END OF THE SANCTORAL AND BEGINNING OF THE COMMON OF SAINTS.

Germany: early 13th century.

Price: $950.00

A VERY FINE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN LATIN, FROM THE LLANGATTOCK BREVIARY, WITH AN HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING ST. PAUL.

TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL.

Italy [Ferrara]: 1441-48.

Price: $10,000.00

ADAMS, ANSEL.

YOSEMITE AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Company, 1979.

Price: $19,000.00

(ST16379-140) ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM, REGUM ATQUE ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM TESTIMONIA DE BEATO...

(ALBERGATI, NICCOLO). RUGGERIUS, CONSTANTINUS, [and] JACOBUS ZENUS.

ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM, REGUM ATQUE ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM TESTIMONIA DE BEATO NICOLAO ALBERGATO.

Rome: Ex Typographia Francisci de Comitibus Ipressoris Cameralis, 1744.

Price: $650.00

(ST20985) EX PLAUTI COMOEDIIS XX QUARUM CARMINA MAGNA EX PARTE IN MENSUM SUUM RESTITUTA...

(ALDINE IMPRINT). PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS.

EX PLAUTI COMOEDIIS XX QUARUM CARMINA MAGNA EX PARTE IN MENSUM SUUM RESTITUTA SUNT MDXXII.

Venetiis [Venice]: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri [Torresano], July 1522.

Price: $6,900.00

(ST20861) A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH...

(AMERICANA - 19TH CENTURY ILLINOIS HOMESTEADING). [BURLEND, REBECCA].

A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA; BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED FROM BARWICK-IN-ELMET, NEAR LEEDS, IN THE YEAR 1831.

London: G. Berger, [1848].

Price: $475.00

(ST20862) THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE...

(AMERICANA - AARON BURR CONSPIRACY). SAFFORD, WILLIAM H.

THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED.

Chillicothe, Ohio: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850.

Price: $225.00

(ST20971) MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY: WITH SKETCHES OF MANNERS AND SCENERY IN AMERICA,...

(AMERICANA - PRE-REVOLUTIONARY HUDSON VALLEY). GRANT, ANNE.

MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY: WITH SKETCHES OF MANNERS AND SCENERY IN AMERICA, AS THEY EXISTED PREVIOUS TO THE REVOLUTION.

New York: Printed for Samuel Campbell by D. and G. Bruce, 1809.

Price: $1,100.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM LEAF WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE DEPICTING THE HARROWING OF HELL, AFTER ALBRECHT DÜRER.

WITH A BORDER BEARING THE INSCRIPTION "VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN ETERNUM."

Germany: ca. 1540.

Price: $8,500.00

(ANATOMY - 18TH CENTURY, BIRTH DEFECTS). SANDIFORT, EDUARD. and GERARD SANDIFORT.

MUSEUM ANATOMICUM ACADAMIAE LUGDUNO-BATAVAE.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: S. & J. Luchtmans, 1793, 1827, 1835.

Price: $14,000.00

(ANATOMY - 18TH CENTURY, BIZARRE). RUYSCH, FREDERICK.

THESAURUS ANATOMICUS -- ANATOMISCH CABINET.

Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, then Jansson-Waesberg, 1701-14; 1715-16.

Price: $16,000.00

(ST20219) A COMPENDIOUS TREATISE OF ANATOMY, ADAPTED TO THE ARTS OF DESIGNING, PAINTING,...

(ANATOMY - ILLUSTRATIONS). TINNEY, JOHN.

A COMPENDIOUS TREATISE OF ANATOMY, ADAPTED TO THE ARTS OF DESIGNING, PAINTING, AND SCULPTURE: ON EIGHT FOLIO COPPER PLATES.

London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ca. 1770.

Price: $1,750.00