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Landau (Baron Horace De)

Catalogue of Very Important Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books; Selected from the Renowned Library Formed by Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903). Maintained and Augmented by his niece Madame Finaly, of Florence (d.1938).

London: Sotheby & Co., 1948.,

56.26 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Author
Landau (Baron Horace De)
Publishers
London: Sotheby & Co., 1948.
Keyword
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY, INCUNABLES INCUNABULA

Description

Small 4to (245 x 180 mm), [4], 82, [6]pp., 52 plates, frontis., orig. printed wrappers, 129 lots. The Landau collection was remarkable for its quality, this sale containing the Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg from the atelier of Jean Pucelle, executed about 1340. Some very fine Books of Hours were included, one being a great rarity with miniatures in grisaille. Among the incunabula were five printed on vellum, including the 1462 48-line Bible printed at Mainz, and the 1460 Catholicon. Other rare incunables included were mainly from Italian and German printers. Also in the sale were a number of important medical and travel books, some fine bindings (including a Grolier), and a ìsetî of the first four Shakespeare folios. The first post-war sale in Britain of a foreign library, the first occasion on which the books in a sale were on view in New York.
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