Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A SMALL BUT POWERFUL MINIATURE OF SAINT GREGORY, FROM AN ENGAGING LITTLE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES OF THE SAINTS.

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

Price: $4,000.00

VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANÇOIS CHASSEBŒUF, COMTE DE.

TRAVELS THROUGH SYRIA AND EGYPT, IN THE YEARS 1783, 1784, AND 1785.

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788.

Price: $1,500.00

READE, CHARLES.

THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894.

Price: $275.00

MORRIS, WILLIAM.

THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS.

London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.

Price: $750.00

GALSWORTHY, JOHN. (BINDINGS - BAYNTUN).

THE PLAYS.

London: Duckworth, 1929.

Price: $400.00

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A BEAUTIFUL HISTORIATED INITIAL AND ITS GUIDE SKETCH, FROM A FINE PORTABLE BIBLE IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF PAUL'S FIRST LETTER TO THE THESSALONIANS.

Paris: mid-13th century.

Price: $10,000.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH A MINIATURE OF A BURIAL SCENE.

TEXT FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD.

France (probably Paris): ca. 1440.

Price: $7,500.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A FINE, SMALL MINIATURE OF A CISTERCIAN MONK WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, FROM A MISSAL IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE MASSES FOR THE VIRGIN.

Eastern France, perhaps Neubourg Abbey in Alsace: ca. 1450.

Price: $7,000.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A LARGE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A MINIATURE OF ST. MARK.

TEXT FROM THE GOSPEL LESSONS.

France [probably Besançon]: 3rd quarter of 15th century.

Price: $8,000.00

(ST12570) DAS GOLDENE EVANGELIENBUCH VON ECHTERNACH. CODEX AUREUS EPTERNACENSIS. [THE...

(FACSIMILE PUBLICATION - ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, EARLY).

DAS GOLDENE EVANGELIENBUCH VON ECHTERNACH. CODEX AUREUS EPTERNACENSIS. [THE GOLDEN GOSPEL BOOK OF ECHTERNACH].

Zürich: Coron Verlag, 1982.

Price: $9,500.00

BOSWELL, JAMES.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1896.

Price: $250.00

(INCUNABULAR LEAF). JOHANNES, BENEDICTINE OF ST. ULRICH UND AFRA.

SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS.

Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1473.

Price: $225.00

(ATLASES - EUROPOEAN). SEUTTER, GEORG MATTHAEUS.

ATLAS NOVUS INDICIBUS INSTRUCTUS.

Wien [Vienna]: Gedrukt bey Johann Peter v. Ghelen/Kaiserlichen Hof-/Universitäts-/ und Gemeiner Stadt Wien Buchdruckern, 1730 [but see below].

Price: $25,000.00

(BINDINGS - BOZERIAN). BIBLE IN LATIN.

BIBLIORUM SACRORUM VULGATAE VERSIONIS EDITIO.

Paris: Excudebat Fr. Amb. Didot, 1785.

Price: $5,500.00

(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

(CRANACH PRESS). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

London: Hodgson & Graves, 1837.

Price: $35,000.00