Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

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: $3,000.00

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM ADVENT.

Austria (Salzburg): second half of 12th century.

Price: $2,500.00

DICKENS, CHARLES.

BARNABY RUDGE.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842.

Price: $75.00

(ST21178) THE REHEARSAL; A COMEDY. WRITTEN BY GEORGE VILLERS [sic] LATE DUKE OF...

(FALSE IMPRINTS). BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF.

THE REHEARSAL; A COMEDY. WRITTEN BY GEORGE VILLERS [sic] LATE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, TO EXPOSE SOME PLAYS THEN IN VOGUE, & THEIR AUTHORS.

London [i.e., the Hague]: Printed for the Company of booksellers [but actually T. Johnson], [1720?].

Price: $125.00

(INCUNABULAR LEAF - KOBERGER). LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA.

VITA CHRISTI.

Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 20 December, 1478.

Price: $325.00

(INCUNABULAR LEAF - MENTELIN). NICOLAUS DE LYRA.

POSTILLA SUPER TOTAM BIBLIAM.

Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1472.

Price: $275.00

LOVECRAFT, H. P.

THE SHUNNED HOUSE.

Athol, Massachusetts: The Recluse Press, 1928.

Price: $5,500.00

MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, EACH WITH AN HISTORIATED INITIAL.

FROM A PSALTER-HOURS IN LATIN.

Southern Netherlands: ca. 1280.

Price: $12,500.00

MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BIBLE IN LATIN.

WITH TEXT FROM NUMBERS.

France: mid-13th century.

Price: $475.00

(VELLUM PRINTING - 16TH CENTURY). TWO LEAVES FROM A PRINTED BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM, WITH BEAUTIFUL HAND-PAINTED TROMPE-L'OEIL BORDERS, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY.

TEXT IN LATIN.

Paris: Nicolas Vivien(?), early 16th century.

Price: $1,250.00