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909J Book of Hours, Use of Rome. 12 Large hand painted images.

A beautiful hand painted Printed Book of Hours with Twelve full page colored Images.

Georgette de Montenay The first emblem book written by a woman.

Georgette de Montenay’s emblem book stands at the crossroads of Reformation devotion and early modern innovation: the first emblem book ever written by a woman and the earliest to use copper engravings rather than woodcuts. The 1619 Frankfurt edition preserves her pioneering vision in a refined Protestant “Stammbuch” format.

909J Book of Hours, Use of Rome. 12 Large hand painted images.

A beautiful hand painted Printed Book of Hours with Twelve full page colored Images.

Thomas Aquinas on Sacrament of Penance ca. 1493.

563J Thomas Aquinas Quaestiones junta doctrina circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae. [Rome : Johann Besicken, about 1493-94]. Collijn assigns this to Guldinbeck. PRICE $4,500 Octavo 19 x 13.5 cm Signatures : a8 Fol. 8 blank and present. Old bibliographies assigned this to... Continue Reading →

2024 Boston Antiquarian Book Fair

NOVEMBER 8 - 10, 2024AT THE HYNES CONVENTION CENTER900 BOYLSTON ST, BOSTON, MA Friday, November 8, 2024 • 4pm to 8pm / Ticket $25Saturday, November 9, 2024 • noon to 7pm / Free AdmissionSunday, November 10, 2024 • 11am to 4pm / Free Admission Below is a... Continue Reading →

Annotated Sammelband incunabula

1495 Quentell & 1499 Wolff 552Ji   Mateusz,; z Krakowa, Cardinal,; approximately 1330-1410.* (Ars moriendi.) - Speculū artis bene moriēdi de temptatōnibus. penis infernalibus interrogatōibus agonisantium et varijs oratōnibus pro illorum salute faciendis  (Köln, Heinrich Quentell, aout  1495).   Price $9,000 Quarto  20 x 5 cm. Signatures:... Continue Reading →

619J Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie B.V.M. Printed on Vellum 47 full-paged cuts coloured.

Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum :pleris[que] Biblie figuris at[que] chorea lethi circu[m]munite, nouis[que] effigiebus adornate, vt in septet[m] Psalmis penitentiali[bus], in vigiliis defunctoru[m], & in horis S[an]cte[m] Crucis, in horis quo[que] S[an]cti Sp[irit]us videre licebit. Exarate [qui]de[m] Parisiis : industria bibliographi Thielmanni Keruer, preclare Vniuersitatis Parisiane librarii iurati in vico Sancti Iacobi ad signum Vnicornis 1519 Price $26,000 The full-page... Continue Reading →

Over One Hundred Sermons by Johannes Tauler, and Extracts Johannes Eckhart, Eckhart le Jeune, Henri Suso, Jean Ruysbroeck, Henri de Louvain.

634J  Johannes Tauler (Thauler) 1300- 1361  edited by Laurentius Surius  D. Ioannis Thauleri clarissimi ac illuminati theologi ordinis praedicat.  Sermones de tempore & de sanctis totius anni plane piissimi: reliquaque eius pietati ac devotioni maxime inservientia opera omnia, Laurentio Surio Carthusiano in Latinum... Continue Reading →

Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie B.V.M. Printed on Vellum with 47 full-paged cuts coloured.

Horæ Deipare Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum :pleris[que] Biblie figuris at[que] chorea lethi circu[m]munite, nouis[que] effigiebus adornate, vt in septet[m] Psalmis penitentiali[bus], in vigiliis defunctoru[m], & in horis S[an]cte[m] Crucis, in horis quo[que] S[an]cti Sp[irit]us videre licebit. Exarate [qui]de[m] Parisiis : industria bibliographi Thielmanni Keruer, preclare Vniuersitatis Parisiane librarii iurati in vico Sancti Iacobi ad signum Vnicornis 1519 Price $26,000 Exarate [qui]de[m]... Continue Reading →

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