Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, SOME WITH GORGEOUS ILLUMINATION.

FROM AN EXTREMELY LARGE ANTIPHONER IN LATIN.

Northeastern Italy [Verona or Mantua?]: ca. 1470.

Price: $200.00

SCOTT, WALTER.

HALIDON HILL; A DRAMATIC SKETCH, FROM SCOTTISH HISTORY.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1822.

Price: $80.00

(LOUIS XVIII). LAMOTHE-LANGON, ÉTIENNE-LÉON, BARON DE. "A LADY," Pseudonym.

PRIVATE MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF LOUIS XVIII.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.

Price: $190.00

(LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB). BALTHUS, Illustrator. BRONTË, EMILY.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993.

Price: $4,500.00

ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT CALENDAR LEAF, FROM AN ENGAGING LITTLE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.

Northern France [probably Paris]: ca. 1460s.

Price: $1,250.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM AN EXTRAORDINARILY LARGE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A MINIATURE OF THE NATIVITY.

TEXT FROM PRIME.

France (probably Besançon): 3rd quarter of 15th century.

Price: $9,500.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT CALENDAR LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, WITH SMALL MINIATURES OF THE LABOR OF THE MONTH AND ZODIAC SIGN.

TEXT FROM THE MONTH OF MARCH.

France (probably Paris): ca. 1480.

Price: $3,200.00

(ILLUMINATION - MODERN). NORMAN, DA LORIA, Artist.

AN ILLUMINATED WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, WITH GOLD HIGHLIGHTING.

ca. 1920.

Price: $6,500.00

GILL, ERIC, Illustrator. (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). CHAUCER, GEOFFREY.

THE CANTERBURY TALES.

Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31.

Price: $29,000.00

(ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER - MODERN). SYM, MISS MARY G., Scribe and Illuminator. AESOP.

THE PEACOCK AND THE MAGPIE.

[Edinburgh: mid-20th century?].

Price: $950.00

(ST15557-1) CHILTERN AND VALE FARMING. [bound with] THE PRACTICAL FARMER; OR THE...

(AGRICULTURE). ELLIS, WILLIAM.

CHILTERN AND VALE FARMING. [bound with] THE PRACTICAL FARMER; OR THE HERTFORDSHIRE HUSBANDMAN.

London: Printed for the author, 1733; London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton, 1732.

Price: $650.00

LONGUS. SUSAN ALLIX, Book Artist.

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE.

London: Willow Press, 1982.

Price: $5,500.00

SUMMA RUDIUM.

Reutlingen: Johann Otmar, 1487.

Price: $8,500.00

(BINDINGS - KALTHOEBER). ROUSSEAU, JEAN-BAPTISTE.

ODES, CANTATES, EPITRES ET POESIES DIVERSES.

Paris: P. Didot, fils aîné de F. A. Didot l'aîné, 1790.

Price: $5,900.00

(ST14860) BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT, ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS,...

(BINDINGS - ERNST RÜCKERT ). BIBLE IN GERMAN. LUTHER, MARTIN with WELLERI, JACOBI VORREDE.

BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT, ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, VERTEUTSCHET DURCH D. MARTIN LUTHER. [with] DIE AUGSBURGISCHE CONFESSION.

Luneburg: Sternischen Buchdruderen, 1750.

Price: $2,800.00

(ST11935) [In Greek:] ANAKREONTOS TÊIOU MELÊ [then:] ANACREONTIS TEII ODARIA. ...

(BODONI IMPRINT). ANACREON.

[In Greek:] ANAKREONTOS TÊIOU MELÊ [then:] ANACREONTIS TEII ODARIA. [i.e., THE ODES].

Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785].

Price: $9,500.00

(COLOR PLATES - TRAVEL AND VIEWS, CENTRAL AMERICA). CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK.

VIEWS OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CHIAPAS, AND YUCATAN.

London: F. Catherwood, 1844.

Price: $95,000.00

JOHNSON, SAMUEL.

MR. JOHNSON'S PREFACE TO HIS EDITION OF SHAKESPEAR'S PLAYS.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson et al. 1765.

Price: $4,000.00

(INCUNABULAR LEAF). PETRUS COMESTOR.

HISTORIA SCHOLASTICA.

[Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 6 Feb. 1473].

Price: $450.00

(BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). (FLORENCE PRESS). STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS.

VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE AND OTHER PAPERS.

London: Published for the Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, 1910.

Price: $12,500.00

(BINDINGS - ANDREW SIMS). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. CHARLES ROBINSON, Illustrator.

THE SONGS & SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE.

London: Duckworth & Co., 1915.

Price: $2,750.00

BROWNE, SIR THOMAS.

RELIGIO MEDICI AND OTHER ESSAYS.

London: [Printed at the Ballantyne Press for] Chapman & Hall, Ltd., [1911].

Price: $225.00

(BINDINGS - PERSIAN DESIGN). (RUBÁIYÁT). WILLY POGÁNY, Illustrator.

THE RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM.

Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1942.

Price: $1,250.00

(ARCHITECTURE - ANCIENT ROMAN WORLD). ADAM, ROBERT.

RUINS OF THE PALACE OF THE EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN AT SPALATRO IN DALMATIA.

London: Printed for the Author, 1764.

Price: $12,500.00