![Item #66848 Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA](https://heritagebookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66848.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681760311)
Venice: Bernard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. One of the Earliest Examples of a Venetian Woodcut Border [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477]. First complete edition of Appian’s Roman history (De bellis civilibus had been.....
Paris, 1400. Use of Paris) In French and Latin, illuminated manuscript, on parchment France, Paris, c. 1400-1410 15 large miniatures by the Master of the Bible Historiale MS fr. 159 (as described by Les Enluminures) This beautifully executed and unusual Parisian Book of Hours was painted at the time of.....
Ghent, 1470. ANONYMOUS GHENT ARTIST. Book of Hours.[In Latin]. [Ghent, c.1470s-1480s]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Illuminated in Ghent in the 1470s-1480s, bearing the stylistic features of works painted by the great illuminators active in the city such as the Vienna Master Mary of Burgundy. According to Christie's apparently textually complete.....
Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1498. Translated into Latin by Jacobus Locher “Philomusus” in collaboration with Brant, and with additions by Thomas Beccadelli]. [Basel]: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, [1 March] 1498. Second enlarged Latin edition (first published in German in 1494 by the same printer). Small quarto (8 1/2 x......
![Item #68895 [A leaf from the Polychronicon]. William CAXTON](https://heritagebookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68895_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682978883)
[Westminster]: [Printed by William Caxton], 1482. HIGDEN, Ranulf, [contributor]. LEAF. [A leaf from the Polychronicon]. [Westminster]: [Printed by William Caxton], 1482. Full Description: [CAXTON, William]. HIGDEN, Ranulf. [A leaf from the Polychronicon]. [Westminster: Printed by William Caxton, after July 2, 1482]. First edition. Small folio. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4.....
![Item #68852 [A leaf from The Canterbury Tales]. Geoffrey CHAUCER](https://heritagebookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68852_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677188163)
[Westminster]: [Printed by William Caxton], 1483. A Leaf from the Second Edition of The Canterbury Tales, Printed by William Caxton A Foundational Text of English Literature CAXTON, William. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. LEAF. [A leaf from The Canterbury Tales]. [Westminster]: [Printed by William Caxton], 1483. Full Description: CAXTON, William. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. LEAF.....
Strassburg: Georg Husner, 1486. Full Description: COLUMNA, Guido de. Historia Destructionis Troiae. [Strassburg: George Husner, October 9, 1486]. Sixth edition overall and second edition printed in Strassburg. Folio in sixes (11 1/16 x 8 inches; 280 x 204 mm.). Unpaginated. Eighty-eight leaves, complete. Printed in double column, 43 lines, gothic.....
Germany: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1498. cum quibusdam annotationibus [of Jacob Locher]. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger (misspelled Gürninger), 12 March 1498. First illustrated edition of Horace and the first edition printed in Germany. Edited by the poet Jacob Locher, called Philomusus (1471-1528). It is also the first edition based on German.....
Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1484. CAXTON, William, [contributor]. An Original leaf from the Ovide Moralisé. Bruges 1484. With an Introduction by Wytze & Lotte Hellinga. Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1484. Full Description: [CAXTON, William, contributor]. [MANSION, Colard]. An Original leaf from the Ovide Moralisé, Bruges 1484. With an Introduction by Wytze &.....
Venice: Vernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, 1491. Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, August, 13 1491. [And:] FICINO, Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio (11 7/8.....
Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1490]. After Manilius’s Astronomica, Sacrobosco’s Sphaera was the first printed book on astronomy (Ferrara: 1472). Small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 197 x 150 mm). 48 leaves. Woodcuts and diagrams, seven of which are colored.....
St. Alban's: St. Alban's Schoolmaster Printer, 1485. Leaf from Saint Alban's Chronicle. Printed at St. Alban's: St. Alban's Schoolmaster Printer, n.d.c.a.1485]. Single folio leaf from the first edition of the Saint Alban's Chronicle (9 13/16 x 6 7/8 inches; 249 x 172 mm. One leaf printed on recto and verso.....
![Item #68894 [Leaf from "The Golden Legende"]. Jacobus de VORAGINE](https://heritagebookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68894.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682824211)
Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498. CAXTON, William, [translator]. LEAF. WYNKYN DE WORDE. [Leaf from "The Golden Legende"].. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498. Full Description: [VORAGINE, Jacobus de]. [CAXTON, William, translator]. [WYNKYN DE WORDE, printer]. J The Golden Legend. [Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498]. A leaf fragment of Wynkyn de Worde's.....
Italy (Venice?), 1300. Italy (Venice?): 1300. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto (8 x 5 9/16 inches; 203 x 142 mm.). 281 leaves, plus one blank leaf at front and two blank leaves at end (fols. 279 and 281 apparently conjoint with two blank vellum leaves, fol. 280 on a......
Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg, 1486. sanctorum sive Lombardica historia. [Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (perhaps associated with Georg Husner)], 19 December 1486]. Folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 x inches; 293 x 215 mm.). 265 leaves. Collation: [1], 18 ,26 a-z8.6 ,A-E6.8 ,F-I6.8.....