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TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST by AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH UNUSUAL HISTORIATED INITIALS FEATURING THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST
Author: AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH UNUSUAL HISTORIATED INITIALS FEATURING THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Bruges, ca. 1465. 193 x 145 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 3/4"). Single column, 21 lines in a gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, WITH THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS: ONE WITH A PORTRAIT OF CHRIST WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS, AND TWO WITH DISEMBODIED HANDS SHOWING THE STIGMATA, each initial in pink or blue with white tracery, filled with dark pink or blue with thin gilt lines and dots, hands with wavy blue rays radiating from behind the appendage, all within a thin gilt frame, both sides with a three-quarter border consisting of hairline vines, gold bezants, and a few colorful flowers. ◆Margins with a little light soiling, BUT IN FINE CONDITION, THE PAINT OF THE INITIALS ESPECIALLY RICH AND WELL PRESERVED. From a manuscript probably produced in Bruges for the English market, this leaf contains arresting initials that direct the viewer's attention to the wounds endured by Christ during the Passion. According to Roger Wieck, Passion Cycle images enjoyed a particular vogue in 15th century Dutch, Flemish, and English Books of Hours, including those that were exported to England. In the present example, the strikingly unusual imagery includes a portrait of Christ wearing the Crown of Thorns, his gaze fixed directly at the viewer, and in separate initials, his left and right hands appear disembodied and displaying the stigmata. A sister leaf to the present item features three additional initials showing the wounds of the left and right foot, as well as the spear injury to Christ's side, depicted as an oval piece of flesh with a laceration across the center. The parent manuscript containing the present leaf sold at Christie's on 15 November 2006 (lot 16), the description for which gives us additional information about the book's contents and provenance: it was made for the Use of Sarum, included a calendar with the English saint Thomas Becket and Popes Gregory and Silvester (with their names crossed out, indicating that it was in England through at least the time of the Reformation), and contained an early ownership inscription of a woman named Bridget Lowe with a Middle English inscription on the pastedown. Christie's also attributed the parent manuscript to the workshop of William Vrelant, with miniatures possibly by his chief assistant, the Master of the "Vraie Cronique Descoce." They note that this work is "of higher quality than many of the works that satisfied the English demand for Netherlandish illumination" and that it "demonstrates why Vrelant appealed to the great bibliophiles of the Burgundian Netherlands." Vrelant was the leading purveyor of books of private devotion in Bruges during the third quarter of the 15th century, and his prominent position among Flemish illuminators of the time is indicated by the considerable number of manuscripts illustrated in his manner by other miniaturists both in Bruges and in nearby cities in Flanders. Similar examples to the present leaf can be found in intact Books of Hours at the Philadelphia Free Library (MS Widener 3) and the Huntington (HM 1086)--both of which were produced in Flanders or the Netherlands around the same time as the present work--but the present leaf surpasses both of these examples in terms of excellence of the artistic hand and level of detail depicted..

The Professor by Bell, Currer (Pseudonym of Charlotte Bronte)

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: The Professor
Author: Bell, Currer (Pseudonym of Charlotte Bronte)
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original cloth patterned in blind with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good with light rubbing through at extremities, rubbing and fading to cloth. Scattered pencil notations to yellow coated endsheets, contemporary owner name to title pages and slight perfume odor to pages. A lovey copy of the Charlotte Bronte's first novel.

Strikingly Beautiful Vintage Original Sepia Photograph Signed by ALLAN, Elizabeth

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: Strikingly Beautiful Vintage Original Sepia Photograph Signed
Author: ALLAN, Elizabeth
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: 1938. ("Elizabeth Allan") in blue fountain pen ink on 3/4 length portrait of Elizabeth Allan wearing a short sleeve dress with a dark sweater vest, head slightly tilted by with long blonde curls. Photograph is Ernest A. Bachrach with his blindstamp in the lower left margin and is on heavy weight stock ; matte finish. Very good, ca. 1938. Signed and inscribed: "To Martha With best wishes & many thanks Elizabeth Allan." Provenance: from the collection of Hollywood hairdresser, Martha Acker.. No Binding. Very Good.

MACROLIFE (1/2) by ZEBROWSKI, George

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: MACROLIFE (1/2)
Author: ZEBROWSKI, George
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: NY, HARPER, 1979. FIRST EDITION FINE. F.

Die Kaninchen und Seidenhaasenzucht .... BOUND WITH .... Dungun durch Knochenmehl .... by Redares, M / Geisler, B G - AGRICULTURE

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Title: Die Kaninchen und Seidenhaasenzucht .... BOUND WITH .... Dungun durch Knochenmehl ....
Author: Redares, M / Geisler, B G - AGRICULTURE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Both good copies; feint inst. stamp on each title; overall toning and spotting.
Description: Weimar: B F Voight, 1841. First / Second Edition.. contemp. paste paper bds... Both good copies; feint inst. stamp on each title; overall toning and spotting.. 12mo. There are two plates on one sheet. The first tract is devoted to a get-rich-quick scheme of raising rabbits. The second pamphlet is devoted to extolling the use of bone-meal as a fertilizer in gardens.

Estrangements by Freeman, Arthur

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Seller: Biblioctopus

Title: Estrangements
Author: Freeman, Arthur
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. First Edition. Comb bound galley proofs with printed orange wrappers. Creasing, short tears and staining to wrappers, internally fine. Rare. Freeman's first poetry collection, published while he was teaching English at Boston University and running the rare book firm Ximenes. Freeman would become one of the most distinguished rare book dealers and bibliographers of the twentieth century, specializing in English literature before 1850 and discovering numerous lost or undervalued manuscripts including Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and works annotated by Defoe and Pope.

Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains by Bird, Sarah

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Title: Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains
Author: Bird, Sarah
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
ISBN: 9780393023237
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0393023230 . [nice tight copy, faint soiling/shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket clean and attractive, with one unobtrusive closed tear at top rear corner (at foldover)]. Comic novel of a Texas sorority house, "a woman's hilarious answer to Animal House" -- Secrets of the Yee-Haw Sisterhood, perhaps? -- based on the author's own undergraduate experiences at UT-Austin. Her second book (and first hardcover) to be published under her own name; for a time, she also had a parallel career as a romance novelist under the pseudonym "Tory Cates." (Her subsequent work has included several novels, one of which, "The Boyfriend School," she also screenplayed under the title DON'T TELL HER IT'S ME.) [This book is featured in ReadInk's Catalog #2, "Skirts, in Jackets"; ask for it by name or number.] .

Mr. Miller of the Times by Bond, F. Fraser

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Title: Mr. Miller of the Times
Author: Bond, F. Fraser
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, chipped at the corners and top edge. Red cloth, lightly pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with slightly dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few small stains at the edges, clean internally. A biography of Charles R. Miller, editor of the New York Times.

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