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circa 33 x 26 cm. Frontispiece in colour, XXXII pp., 1 f., 202 pp., 1 f., with many plates Original softcover With many images of the manuscripts, text in Italian. - Fine, clean, uncut.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. E.P. Goldschmidt & Co Ltd. Catalogues 1-172 (complete); Lists 4-8 § 15-20 § 22-33; Stock Lists 1-2; Supplements 1-16, 18; 1965-1992 (incomplete series) London, 1923-1992. 21 vols in 4to & 8vo bound in buckram including 154 copies in their original illustrated or printed wrappers; remaining copies loose in original wrappers as issued. An unusually comprehensive collection of the famous illustrated sale catalogues, lists & supplements issued by the distinguished firm of London antiquarian booksellers specializing in early printed continental books and manuscripts, renowned for their learning, founded in 1923. Comprising a complete series of sale catalogues (catalogue nos 82 & 95 in photocopy); the collection includes 24 lists (of 33 issued), stock lists I & II (all issued), supplements (nos 1-15, 18) (1960-1992). The overall condition is good or very good. Catalogue 97 has marginal tears. Comprehensive colections of Goldschmidt catalogues are very rare in the market. Ernst Philipp Goldschmidt (1887-1954), author of 'Medieval Texts' and 'Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings', paid special attention in his descriptions to textual questions, bindings and provenance.…