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• Buy BRANDT Stultifera
• Buy BRANDT, Sébastien. [La Nef des Fous]. Stultifera Navis (traduit en latin par Jacobus L... First incunabula Latin edition published in Strasbourg illustrated with 117 spectacular woodcuts.
• Buy ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT adorned with 9 full-page miniatures. LIVRE D’HEURES DE CATHERINE (à l’usage de Rome). Very attractive illuminated manuscript decorated with 9 large paintings and 21 small miniatures within borders of great finesse in excellent condition.
• Buy FRIDOLIN, Stephan Der Schatzbehalter oder schrein der wahren Reichtümer des Heils und... First edition of the Schatzbehalter - Nuremberg 1491 - one of the most beautiful gothic incunabula, preserved in its contemporary binding.
• Buy CATO, Valerius. Ethica, cum comment. amplissimis Philippi Bergomensis. This "rare" princeps edition (Brunet), of great reputation in the Middle Ages achieved considerable prices at public auction, higher than the famous original of Les Précieuses r...
• Buy [BIBLE]. MANUSCRIT ENLUMINÉ SUR PEAU DE VÉLIN. Superb Capetian manuscript from the School of Paris.
• Buy Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375). Le livre de Jehan Bocasse [sic] De la Louenge et vertu des nobles e... First French edition and first issue illustrated with 80 woodcuts.
• Buy BALBUS, Johannes (d. 1298). Catholicon. The famous "Catholicon" completed by Koberger on 21 August 1486, complete, preserved in its decorated workshop binding of the time.
• Sold SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber Chronicarum. First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle illustrated with 1809 incunabular woodcuts in first issue.
• Sold LA MER DES HYSTOIRES. LA MER DES HYSTOIRES. First edition of La Mer des Hystoires, "the most beautiful illustrated French incunable" (Claudin), completed in printing in February 1489, embellished with over 200 woodcut eng...
• Sold DANTE ALIGHIERI Convivio di Dante Alighierei Fiorentino // Si chome dice ilphiloso/... Incunabular first edition of the famous "Feast", this masterpiece of Dante.
• Sold ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT orné de 9 grandes miniatures. Very pleasant illuminated manuscript for the use of a Norman diocese, decorated with 9 large miniatures.
• Sold PHILIPPE PIGOUCHET - SIMON VOSTRE. Ces présentes heures a lusaige de Rome furĕt achevez lan Mil CCCC. ... Incunabular partly first edition printed on vellum skin on the 22nd of August 1498 decorated with several hundreds of woodcuts.
• Sold ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT [Heures à l’usage de Paris]. Very pleasant illuminated Parisian manuscript illustrated with 6 large miniatures bound in an elegant 16th century binding.
• Sold ARISTOPHANES. Comoediae novem, en grec. Editio princeps of Aristophanes’ "Comedies".
• Sold THE DREAM OF THE ORCHARD LE SONGE DU VERGIER, qui parle de la disputation du clerc et du che... Rare first incunabular edition of the Songe du Vergier printed in Lyons in 1491.
• Sold BRANDT, Sébastien. [La Nef des Fous]. Stultifera Navis. “The most beautiful incunabular edition illustrated with 118 woodcuts printed on 8 March 1498” (Brunet, I, 1204). The illustration is attributed to Albrecht Durer by Erwin Panof...
• Sold BOOK OF HOURS. LIVRE D’HEURES A L’USAGE D’AMIENS. Shimmering illuminated manuscript of high quality, evocative of the Abbeville painting from the 1480s.
• Sold BOUTILLIER, Jehan La Somme rurale. The first great book in the French language to codify medieval customs.
• Sold LA MER DES HISTOIRES LA MER DES HISTOIRES (contenant les Fables d’Esope et l’histoire de... La Mer des Histoires, the history of France until the death of King Louis XI
• Sold PLAUTUS Comoediae. Plautinae viginti comoediae emendatissimae, cum…, interp... First incunabula edition of Plaute’s Comedies, with Valla's comments.
• Sold SAINT-AUGUSTIN De Civitate Dei. Cum Commento – De Trinitate. Precious reunion of two main treatises by Saint Augustine
• Sold ANTIPHONAIRE ANTIPHONAIRE. Recueil des antiennes a chanter accompagnant les priè... Monumental antiphonary from the 15th century