$12,000
INCUNABULA - ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED AT PARIS BY EGIDIUS HARDOUYN FOR GERMANUS HARDOUYN:Contains a calendar for the years 1510-1530; publication date is unknown; vellum pages. Latin text. Early printed book with 16 hand painted woodcut full pages. First few pages missing. Total # of pages in book = 216 printed plus 22 non-printed pages (all pages have gilt edges). Total # of full illustrated woodcut pages without color = 3 plus 1 page that is 3/4 illustrated. Total # of pages with illuminated letters = 175 plus 5 pages without illuminated letters but with illuminated accents. Total # of pages with small hand colored woodcut illuminations (not included in the count elsewhere except in the total # of pages) = 22. Size of full page hand colored illustrations = c. 4 7/8" x 3 1/8". Size of small hand colored woodcut illustrations vary in size from c. 1 1/4" x 7/8" to c. 2" x 1 5/16". Ex. estate Henry Williams father of G. Mennen Williams, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mi. Slip of paper in book gives additional provenance as: Brunet V, col. 135, no. 235. Pencil notation on the 2nd blank page at the beginning of the book gives the publishing information. Rebound cover.
Auctioneer:
Dumouchelle Art Galleries
Date:
2005-04-17
