HUSBAND, TIMOTHY; JULIEN CHAPUIS (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY) — The Treasury of Basel Cathedral

The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press. 2001. (ISBN: 0300088493). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 182 pages; 150 illustrations, including 105 color. The fascinating story of 14th-century Basel; its cathedral; the gold, silver, bejewelled, enameled treasury of altar furnishings and liturgical hardware; earthquake; iconoclastic threat of the Reformation; then dispersal from a nineteenth-century auction. Now, some of the 75 examples in the catalogue are now in the Historisches Museum Basel, others are in various European collections; most have never before been seen in the United States. Gorgeous goldsmiths' work. Clean throughout; as new. Fine/Fine.