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Measuring Ethiopia and flight into Arabia.Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. 8vo. With 8 plates. Yellow cloth with title information in blue on front cover and spine, with a dust jacket designed by Paul Wenck, map of Ethiopia and Arabia on the endpapers.
Measuring Ethiopia and flight into Arabia.Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. 8vo. With 8 plates. Yellow cloth with title information in blue on front cover and spine, with a dust jacket designed by Paul Wenck, map of Ethiopia and Arabia on the endpapers.
COON, Carleton S. · 1933
€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)
IX, [5], 333, [1] pp.First edition of Carlton S. Coon's account of his experiences in Ethiopia and Arabia. From 1933 to 1934 he travelled through Ethiopia to conduct physical anthropological research, but after conflicts with the authorities he had to escape to Arabia. Coon st...
Arabia infelix, or the Turks in Yamen.London, Macmillan and Co., limited, 1915. Large 8vo. With 3 maps and 18 plates, some containing multiple images. Red cloth, blind-tooling on covers, title information in gold on spine.
Arabia infelix, or the Turks in Yamen.London, Macmillan and Co., limited, 1915. Large 8vo. With 3 maps and 18 plates, some containing multiple images. Red cloth, blind-tooling on covers, title information in gold on spine.
BURY, George Wyman. · 1874
€580.00 ($639.27 | £483.87 | ¥102,082)
X, 213, [3] pp.First edition of George Wyman Bury's account of Yemen on the eve of World War I. Bury (1874-1920) was a British naturalist, explorer, Arabist and political officer in the British army, who spent most of his life in the Aden-Yemen borderlands. As a young man, he ...
The wind of morning. The autobiography of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead.London, Chatto & Windus, 1974. Large 8vo. With 8 double sided plates with multiple images, and 4 maps. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine, with dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket.
The wind of morning. The autobiography of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead.London, Chatto & Windus, 1974. Large 8vo. With 8 double sided plates with multiple images, and 4 maps. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine, with dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket.
BOUSTEAD, Hugh. · 1895
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
240 pp.The autobiography of Colonel Sir (John Edmond) Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), a British military officer and diplomat who served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern Countries, for example in Ethiopia, Sudan, Aden, and the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia. He had a ...
Beschryving van de beroemde, en van ouds vermaarde vrye keiserlyke ryks- en krooning- stad Aken, mitsgaders van alle desselfs fonteinen en minerale wateren en baden (...) tot herstelling van veele elendige en sieke menschen hunne gesontheid. Leiden, Johannes du Vivier, 1727. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 18 engraved plates (15 folding, 3 full-page), several engraved illustrations in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved title vignette, and 10 engraved folding plates by H. Spilman after Jan de Beyer. With: LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidsbron, en omleggende landsdouwen. Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. Early 19th-century half brown calf.
Beschryving van de beroemde, en van ouds vermaarde vrye keiserlyke ryks- en krooning- stad Aken, mitsgaders van alle desselfs fonteinen en minerale wateren en baden (...) tot herstelling van veele elendige en sieke menschen hunne gesontheid. Leiden, Johannes du Vivier, 1727. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 18 engraved plates (15 folding, 3 full-page), several engraved illustrations in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved title vignette, and 10 engraved folding plates by H. Spilman after Jan de Beyer. With: LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidsbron, en omleggende landsdouwen. Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. Early 19th-century half brown calf.
[BLONDEL, François]. · 1613
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[22], 223, [1 blank]; 63, [11] pp.First Dutch edition of a famous work on the composition and medicinal values of the sulphur springs in Aachen and Burtscheid. The Flemish doctor François Blondel (1613-1703), devoted his life to the promotion of the medicinal qualities of thes...
Schat der armen, of huismedicyn boekje van veelerhande medicamenten, om met kleine kosten zyn eigen doctor te zyn, en velerleye ziektens te genezen. Benevens eene aanwyzing, hoe men de gezondheid lang bewaren kan. ...Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749. With: (2) SIMONS, Guillaume. Den troost der armen; behelzende lichte en souvereine remedien, tegen verscheide ziekten, wonden, gezwellen, en andere kwalen des lichaams van den van den mensch ...Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749.2 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 8vo. Title-page of ad 1 in red and black and one ornamental tail-piece on p. 207. Both works with woodcut initials and small ornaments on both title-pages. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title label on spine.
Schat der armen, of huismedicyn boekje van veelerhande medicamenten, om met kleine kosten zyn eigen doctor te zyn, en velerleye ziektens te genezen. Benevens eene aanwyzing, hoe men de gezondheid lang bewaren kan. ...Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749. With: (2) SIMONS, Guillaume. Den troost der armen; behelzende lichte en souvereine remedien, tegen verscheide ziekten, wonden, gezwellen, en andere kwalen des lichaams van den van den mensch ...Rotterdam, Hermanus Kentlink, 1749.2 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 8vo. Title-page of ad 1 in red and black and one ornamental tail-piece on p. 207. Both works with woodcut initials and small ornaments on both title-pages. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title label on spine.
[JACOBSZ, Heyman].
€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)
[8], 211, [1]; 48 pp.According to the STCN the author of the Schat der armen is Heyman Jacobs. The impressum gives Hermanus Kentlink as the publisher, even though the "message from the publisher" is signed by J. Nikkel. Spine slightly damaged, covers slightly rubbed, a small l...
Recept-boek voor genees- en heelkundigen; volgens de alphabetische orde van de oude klassieke namen der geneesmiddelen gerangschikt, met bijvoeging der nieuwe namen, die in de Pharmacopoea Batava en Belgica voorkomen.Nijmegen, J. F. Thieme, 1825. 12mo (quires of 6). Engraved half title, vignette on title-page. Half mottled calf, brown marbled papers over boards, red title label with title in gold, gold-tooling on spine, blue sprinkled edges.
Recept-boek voor genees- en heelkundigen; volgens de alphabetische orde van de oude klassieke namen der geneesmiddelen gerangschikt, met bijvoeging der nieuwe namen, die in de Pharmacopoea Batava en Belgica voorkomen.Nijmegen, J. F. Thieme, 1825. 12mo (quires of 6). Engraved half title, vignette on title-page. Half mottled calf, brown marbled papers over boards, red title label with title in gold, gold-tooling on spine, blue sprinkled edges.
ELDIK, Cornelis van. · 1791
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[6], III, [1], 416 pp.Cornelis van Eldik (1791-1857) was a Dutch medical doctor and in obstetrics. He was a teacher of medicine, a member of several medical committees in his hometown of Nijmegen. Together with his friend doctor A. Moll he edited a very successful medical jour...
Hausmittel-Apotheke eine Sammlung von A¨rzten und Laien erprobter und bewa¨hrter Heilmittel gegen die meisten Krankheiten, Gebrechen und Unglücksfälle. Aus medicinischen und gemeinnützigen Büchern und Zeitschriften zusammengetragen.Gotha, Druck und Verlag des Verlags-Comptoir, 1843. 8vo. Half calf, black title label, gold-tooling on spine, blue marbled edges.
Hausmittel-Apotheke eine Sammlung von A¨rzten und Laien erprobter und bewa¨hrter Heilmittel gegen die meisten Krankheiten, Gebrechen und Unglücksfälle. Aus medicinischen und gemeinnützigen Büchern und Zeitschriften zusammengetragen.Gotha, Druck und Verlag des Verlags-Comptoir, 1843. 8vo. Half calf, black title label, gold-tooling on spine, blue marbled edges.
HEINSE, Johann Phillipp. · 1838
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
XXVII, 416 pp.Second and enlarged edition, with Medicinisches Noth-und Hülfsbüchlein fur die armere Volksklasse für Aertzen entfernt wohnende Familien und für Auswanderer enthaltend die beswten und bewährtesten Hausmittel. Als Anhang hufelands Haus- und Reise Apotheke. A gener...
Nederlandsche Apotheek.Utrecht, C. van der Post, 1841. 8vo. With a folding engraved plate, and the coat of arms of the Netherlands on the title page. Half red leather, gold-tooling on spine.
Nederlandsche Apotheek.Utrecht, C. van der Post, 1841. 8vo. With a folding engraved plate, and the coat of arms of the Netherlands on the title page. Half red leather, gold-tooling on spine.
[VROLIK, G and N.C. de FREMERY]. · 1775
€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)
xviii, 308 pp.Gerard Vrolik (1775-1859) was a professor of anatomy, fysiology and obstetrics, and was installed in 1799 as a member of the commission to establish a national pharmacopoeia, together with J. Brugmans, P. Driessen, J.R. Deiman and G.G. ten Haaff. In 1805 this res...
[Photographs of Budapest, Vienna and other cities].Budapest, Dresden, Innsbruck, München, Calderoni és társa, Verlag von Stengel & Co, Fritz Gratl, 1897/1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). Album with 43 photographic prints of various sizes (22 x 16.5 to 30 x 24 cm ), pasted on thick paperboard. Half black leather, red buckram sides, gold-stamped spine with the date "1899".
[Photographs of Budapest, Vienna and other cities].Budapest, Dresden, Innsbruck, München, Calderoni és társa, Verlag von Stengel & Co, Fritz Gratl, 1897/1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). Album with 43 photographic prints of various sizes (22 x 16.5 to 30 x 24 cm ), pasted on thick paperboard. Half black leather, red buckram sides, gold-stamped spine with the date "1899".
[AUSTRIA-HUNGARY - GERMANY]. · 1897
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[43] ll.From mountains in Austria to city views and interiors of churches in Budapest, Vienna, Innsbruck and München: all can be found in the 43 photographic prints in the present album. They were taken in at the end of the nineteenth-century, probably in 1897 and 1899 accordi...
Algerie - Tunisie.[Tunis, Photographie Garrigues, late 19th century]. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). Album with 50 photographic prints of various sizes (13.5 x 9.5 to 29 x 21.5 cm , each pasted on thick paperboard. Half black leather with title in gold lettering on front board.
Algerie - Tunisie.[Tunis, Photographie Garrigues, late 19th century]. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). Album with 50 photographic prints of various sizes (13.5 x 9.5 to 29 x 21.5 cm , each pasted on thick paperboard. Half black leather with title in gold lettering on front board.
[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALGERIA - TUNISIA] · 1887
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[50] ll.Album with 50 late-nineteenth-century photographic (probably albumen) prints of scenes in Algeria and Tunisia, made by an unknown photographer. Most of the photographs have a caption naming the place photographed, but only 5 indicate place of production or publication ...
Espagne - Portugal 1899.[Spain?, Hauser & Menet and others?], 1896-1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). An album with 58 photographic prints (including one tinted) varying in size (20.5 x 15.5 to 27.5 x 21.5 cm ), each on thick paperboard. Half black leather, blind-stamped boards (title in gold on front board).
Espagne - Portugal 1899.[Spain?, Hauser & Menet and others?], 1896-1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). An album with 58 photographic prints (including one tinted) varying in size (20.5 x 15.5 to 27.5 x 21.5 cm ), each on thick paperboard. Half black leather, blind-stamped boards (title in gold on front board).
[PHOTOGRAPHY - SPAIN - PORTUGAL]. · 1896
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[58] ll.Album containing 58 photographic prints depicting scenes and sights in Spain and Portugal. Subjects of the prints vary. From the El Escorial, the historical residence of the King of Spain, to the interior of the cathedral - and former mosque - of Cordoba. The prints al...
Arabia felix: across the empty quarter of Arabia.London, Jonathan Cape, 1932. Large 8vo. With 61 plates, illustrations in the text and a large folding map of the "empty quarter" at the back. Original publisher’s orange buckram.
Arabia felix: across the empty quarter of Arabia.London, Jonathan Cape, 1932. Large 8vo. With 61 plates, illustrations in the text and a large folding map of the "empty quarter" at the back. Original publisher’s orange buckram.
THOMAS, Bertram. · 1930
€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)
XXIX, [3], 396, [2] pp.First edition, published simultaneously with the New York one. The preface was contributed by T. E. Lawrence. Among the many photographic illustrations is one of the earliest portraits of the Qatar royal family (facing p. 298). "In this book, Bertram Tho...
The empty quarter, being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.London, Constable, 1933. 8vo. With 3 folding maps an 47 illustrations on 32 plates. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth.
The empty quarter, being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.London, Constable, 1933. 8vo. With 3 folding maps an 47 illustrations on 32 plates. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth.
PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. · 1885
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
XXIV, 433, [1]First edition. St. John Philby (1885-1960), also known by his Arabian name "Sheikh Abdullah", was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he studied oriental languages and was a frien...
The land of Sheba (The Geographical Journal Vol. 92, no. 1).[United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], July 1938. 8vo. With 1 large folding coloured map, 1 smaller uncoloured folding map, and numerous photographs on 7 plates. Later half black cloth.
The land of Sheba (The Geographical Journal Vol. 92, no. 1).[United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], July 1938. 8vo. With 1 large folding coloured map, 1 smaller uncoloured folding map, and numerous photographs on 7 plates. Later half black cloth.
PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. · 1936
€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)
21, 107-132 pp.First edition of this fine account of travels in southern Arabia in 1936, particularly in the Hadhramaut, by the Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer St. John Philby (1885-1960), also known by his Arabian name "Sheikh Abdul...
Halévy in the Yaman (The Geographical Journal Vol. 102, no. 3). [United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], September 1943. 8vo. Contemporary blue cloth with gilt-stamped abbreviated title to front cover: "Philby - Yaman".
Halévy in the Yaman (The Geographical Journal Vol. 102, no. 3). [United Kingdom, The Royal Geographical Society], September 1943. 8vo. Contemporary blue cloth with gilt-stamped abbreviated title to front cover: "Philby - Yaman".
PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. · 1885
€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)
115-124 [=10] pp.First edition of a brief treatise on Joseph Halévy’s journey through the Jawf region of Yemen, collating the version of Habshush with Halévy’s account. St. John Philby (1885-1960), also known by his Arabian name "Sheikh Abdullah", was an Arabist, explorer, wri...
Sheba's daughters beign a record of travel in southern Arabia. With an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A.F.L. Beeston. London, Methuen & Co., [1939]. 4to. With photographic frontispiece, 46 photographic plates (1 of which double-page), 1 folding map of southern Arabia, and several photographic illustrations in the text. Contemporary light yellow cloth with giltstamped title and ornament to the spine.
Sheba's daughters beign a record of travel in southern Arabia. With an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A.F.L. Beeston. London, Methuen & Co., [1939]. 4to. With photographic frontispiece, 46 photographic plates (1 of which double-page), 1 folding map of southern Arabia, and several photographic illustrations in the text. Contemporary light yellow cloth with giltstamped title and ornament to the spine.
PHILBY, Harry St. John Bridger and Alfred Felix Landon BEESTON. · 1885
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
XIX, [1 blank], 485, [1] pp.First edition of this travel account by the first European to cross the Rub’ al-Khali (Empty Quarter) of Arabia from east to west, the Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer St. John Philby (1885-1960), also know...
Beschrijving van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld door Carsten Neibuhr. Uit het Hoogduits vertaald, en vermeerderd met een volledig register van 't geheele werk.Amsterdam and Utrecht, S.J. BAalde and J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., MDCCLXXIV [= 1774]. 2 works in one volume. 4to. With engraved title-page, 24 (partly folding, a few coloured) maps and views, including a long folding map of the Red Sea, a folding genealogical table of the rulers of Sana, and the large map of Yemen (coloured in outline). With some parts (some sentences) of the text printed in Arabic script. With: (2) MICHAËLIS, Johann David [transl. Jacob van EKERS]. Vragen aan een gezelschap van geleerde mannen, die op bevel zynder majesteit des konings van Denemarken naar Arabie reizen. Voorgesteld door den hooggeleerden en wydberoemden heer Johann David Michaëlis. Koninglyken Grootbrittanischen en keurvorstlyken Brunswyk- Lunenburgschen hofraad, hoogleeraar in de wysbegeerte te Gottingen, en bestierder van de societeit der wetenschappen aldaar. Waarby gevoegd is, beoordeling van Niebuhrs beschryving van Arabie door den zelfden schryver, getrokken uit deszelfs orientalische en exegetische bibliotheek , IV. deel. In 't Neerduitsch vertaald en uitgegeven door Jacob van Ekers, bedienaar des goddelyken woords te Medenblik.Amsterdam and Utrecht, S.J. Baalde and J. van Schoonhoven and Comp., MDCCLXXIV [=1774].Contemporary half calf marbled sides, gold-tooled spine, red and black spine labels with the two titles lettered in gold.
Beschrijving van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld door Carsten Neibuhr. Uit het Hoogduits vertaald, en vermeerderd met een volledig register van 't geheele werk.Amsterdam and Utrecht, S.J. BAalde and J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., MDCCLXXIV [= 1774]. 2 works in one volume. 4to. With engraved title-page, 24 (partly folding, a few coloured) maps and views, including a long folding map of the Red Sea, a folding genealogical table of the rulers of Sana, and the large map of Yemen (coloured in outline). With some parts (some sentences) of the text printed in Arabic script. With: (2) MICHAËLIS, Johann David [transl. Jacob van EKERS]. Vragen aan een gezelschap van geleerde mannen, die op bevel zynder majesteit des konings van Denemarken naar Arabie reizen. Voorgesteld door den hooggeleerden en wydberoemden heer Johann David Michaëlis. Koninglyken Grootbrittanischen en keurvorstlyken Brunswyk- Lunenburgschen hofraad, hoogleeraar in de wysbegeerte te Gottingen, en bestierder van de societeit der wetenschappen aldaar. Waarby gevoegd is, beoordeling van Niebuhrs beschryving van Arabie door den zelfden schryver, getrokken uit deszelfs orientalische en exegetische bibliotheek , IV. deel. In 't Neerduitsch vertaald en uitgegeven door Jacob van Ekers, bedienaar des goddelyken woords te Medenblik.Amsterdam and Utrecht, S.J. Baalde and J. van Schoonhoven and Comp., MDCCLXXIV [=1774].Contemporary half calf marbled sides, gold-tooled spine, red and black spine labels with the two titles lettered in gold.
NIEBUHR, Carsten. · 1761
€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)
[6], XXXXI, [1], 408, [14]; [2 blank] XLVI, 270, [2] pp.First Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India (1761-67), the first scientific expedition to this area. Niebuhr's account is here boun...
El Yèmen. Tre anni nell'Arabia felice. Escursioni fatte dal Settembre 1877 al Marzo 1880.Rome, Botta heirs, 1884. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait, 21 plates (including 7 double-page sized; the last single-page plate included in pagination), 2 folding colour-printed maps of Yemen, folding plate of the game "abdùr", folding coloured plan of Sana'a, folding view of Sana'a, folding view of Aden, as well as numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blind-stamped spine and gold-stamped spine-title. Marbled endpapers.
El Yèmen. Tre anni nell'Arabia felice. Escursioni fatte dal Settembre 1877 al Marzo 1880.Rome, Botta heirs, 1884. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait, 21 plates (including 7 double-page sized; the last single-page plate included in pagination), 2 folding colour-printed maps of Yemen, folding plate of the game "abdùr", folding coloured plan of Sana'a, folding view of Sana'a, folding view of Aden, as well as numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blind-stamped spine and gold-stamped spine-title. Marbled endpapers.
MANZONI, Renzo. · 1852
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[8], VI, [2], 446 pp.Rare first edition of a richly illustrated account of Yemen, without doubt "one of the fullest descriptions of life in San'a' and Turkish-occupied North Yemen" (Auchterlonie) ever published. The Italian explorer Manzoni (1852-1918) spent three years travel...
Scheeps-togt van Mr. Edward Heynes, van Suratte na Mocha, gedaan in het jaar 1618. Verhalende, op wat wijse de Engelsse de koopmanschap, met de inwoonders, aldaar hebben opgerigt, en door schriftelijk verseekeringen (van den Bassa gegeeven) vast-gestelt. Als mede een beschrijving van de stad Mocha, des selfs huysingen, bolwerken en haven-plaats.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1707?]. Folio (25.5 × 40 cm). Modern blue-grey paper covers.
Scheeps-togt van Mr. Edward Heynes, van Suratte na Mocha, gedaan in het jaar 1618. Verhalende, op wat wijse de Engelsse de koopmanschap, met de inwoonders, aldaar hebben opgerigt, en door schriftelijk verseekeringen (van den Bassa gegeeven) vast-gestelt. Als mede een beschrijving van de stad Mocha, des selfs huysingen, bolwerken en haven-plaats.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1707?]. Folio (25.5 × 40 cm). Modern blue-grey paper covers.
[HEYNES, Edward]. · 1625
€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)
[5] ll. (text in 2 columns per page, 4 per leaf, 14 cols. in total).First Dutch edition. Edward Heynes’ account of the first successful attempt of the British (the third altogether) at establishing trading privileges with Mocha and a commercial presence there, previously publi...
Ordine da osservarsi nell'oratorio di Santa Maria di Passione, circa gli Essercicii Spirituali delle feste cavato dalla Regola maggiore.[Milan, 18th-century]. Folio (27,5 x 18,5 cm). With 5 full-page and 2 half-page, hand-painted religious illustrations and 9 hand-painted initials on a blue background, heightened with gold and silver. 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled parchment, each board with a blind ornamental centre-piece ornament in a blind-tooled frame, in a larger frame of gold fillets, with a gold flower in each of the 6 spine compartments.
Ordine da osservarsi nell'oratorio di Santa Maria di Passione, circa gli Essercicii Spirituali delle feste cavato dalla Regola maggiore.[Milan, 18th-century]. Folio (27,5 x 18,5 cm). With 5 full-page and 2 half-page, hand-painted religious illustrations and 9 hand-painted initials on a blue background, heightened with gold and silver. 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled parchment, each board with a blind ornamental centre-piece ornament in a blind-tooled frame, in a larger frame of gold fillets, with a gold flower in each of the 6 spine compartments.
[MANUSCRIPT - SERVICE BOOK - DIVINE OFFICES]. · 2004
€14,000.00 ($15,430.55 | £11,679.72 | ¥2,464,059)
[1 blank], [1], 66 pp.A manuscript service book for the divine offices of the confraternity of Santa Maria di Passione (or: Santa Maria della Passione), remarkably illustrated and written (one could better say lettered) on parchment in a very fine and legible hand, largely imi...