Beauvais h (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Midland, 2002. Quarto. Gray cloth boards stamped in silver with gray endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. A fine copy of this history of German aviation development up to 1945. 248 pages. ISBN: 9781857801279. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated. Slight foxing on page edges and front fly, near fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Beauvais to noted author Mary McCarthy: "For Mary McCarthy. From John Beauvais. 9/22/89." One of 500 copies.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Pp. xxxvi, 314, (4). Half-title present. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Shoulder notes. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, morocco lettering-piece gilt, all edges red, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker; slight rubbing to corner-tips, minute chip at foot of spine, name clipped off last free endpaper, repeated small contemporary stamp. In about fine condition. Overall an excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Rare. The biography of the Jesuit priest Jean de Britto who worked in India as a missionary for 25 years before he was martyred on 4 February, 1693. The biography elaborately recounts his evangelical work among the Indians, but also records his observations on their life-style, way of dress, religion and social and political structure. Among the areas where he worked and those he visited were Ceylon, Madras, and Malabar. B-2. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Original qtr. cloth boards. 23 x 33 cm. Sheets loose. 31etchings with a separate text for each work.Portrait de Théo gravé par Gery-Bichard.Premier album de la Société des Aquafortistes Français, comprenant un titre gravé, un portrait et 31 superbes eaux-fortes par G. Greux, L. Ruet, Ch. Courtry, F. Penet, E. Salmon, H. Lefort, A. Duvivier, Oudart, Beauvais, L. Flameng, E. Daumont, A. Duvivier, Buland, P. Huet, Vion, H. Formstecher, Penet, P. Avril, L. Desbrosses, de Billy, A. Mongin, Ch. Waltner. [1 leaf, 6 pages, 31 leaves, 1 pages, 1] leaf, 62 plates ; 46 cm.OCLC Number: 493720802. …

286 x 199 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 3/4"). Double column, containing a mixture of staves and text (approximately 21 lines) in an excellent formal gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red, chant text containing black penwork initials with red and yellow geometric elaboration, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED with five two-line initials painted blue or pink with white tracery on a ground in the contrasting color, two of the initials filled with grotesques and swirling vines (and two with the filler design traced out but never completed) each initial with blue and pink extensions terminating in orange leaves or spiky shapes; the verso featuring AN IMPRESSIVE SIX-LINE "N" (58 x 50 mm.) in the same style, filled with an intricate knotwork design and orange leaves, with long extensions, including a horizontal extension across the upper margin. Margins with light offsetting of the designs from the facing leaf; remnants of mounting tape on recto corners and bottom edge; verso apparently with a barely visible Medieval "14" in lower margin. An area measuring 5 mm. at edges just faintly yellowed (from mat burn?), but IN FINE CONDITION, the vellum otherwise quite bright, the paint rich, and the gold brightly glittering. This sumptuously decorated leaf--which is beautifully preserved and contains a particularly large and handsome initial--comes from the last volume of a three-volume Missal presented to Beauvais Cathedral by Canon Robert de Hangest (d. 1356). The Missal remained at the cathedral at least through the 17th century, when it is noted in an inventory, but was removed from the church at some point, likely in the aftermath of the French Revolution. The parent volume eventually entered the collection of Henri-Auguste Brölemann (1775-1854) of Lyon, who passed it to his grand-daughter Etienne Mallet, who then sold it at Sotheby's in 1926. It was then acquired for the collection of William Hearst, where it remained for the next 25 years. In 1941 it was again sold at auction, and subsequently dismembered. Though long thought to have been the work of famed biblioclast Otto Ege, recent scholarship suggests that it was actually Phillip Duschnes who was responsible for breaking up the book, keeping some leaves for himself and selling others on to his colleague Ege for inclusion in his portfolios of "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts." The Beauvais Missal has been a subject of interest for many notable scholars (chief among them being Christopher de Hamel--see: "Otto Ege and the Beauvais Missal" in "Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library"), and it is currently the focus of a major effort to "reconstruct" the manuscript digitally--a project spearheaded by Lisa Fagin Davis. Other leaves from the parent volume are in the collections of the Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Houghton Library at Harvard, among many others. Although there is some dispute among art historians, the illumination has been tentatively attributed to the artist of the Hours of Yolande of Soissons, produced in Amiens ca. 1280 and now held by the Morgan Library (MS M.729). It is worth noting that the town of Hangest, home to the original owner, is only 10 miles from Amiens, and is a likely place of origin for the Missal. The present leaf contains a text for a major feast day, and thus contains a large and extravagantly decorated initial for its opening, "'Nunc scio vere." It is not too much to say that the decoration here is masterful, but, curiously--and of special interest to us from a modern perspective--the illuminators seem to have forgotten to put the finishing touches on the two smaller initials above, which still contain sketches of the preliminary design.…