24 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 



104 ILLUMINATION THE BOOKS OF ESTER ILLUMINATED BY A.S.F. A 

 REMARKABLY CHOICE XIXTH CENTURY ILLUMINATED MANU- 

 SCRIPT, written on 16 leaves of vellum, gf by 7^-in., gotbiC letter, in red, 

 blue, and black, long lines, DECORATED WITH 3 BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED LARGE 

 MINIATURES, representing King Ahashuerus and four of his courtiers, the King, 

 Ester and Mordecai, and Ester and Mordecai, TOGETHER WITH 19 FULL-PAGE OR 

 PART PAGE BORDERS OF UNUSUAL EXCELLENCE, composed of ivy leaf, line and leaf, 



floral, scroll and other rich ornamental designs, interspersed ivith skilfully drawn 

 figures, grotesques, animals, birds, insects^ natural flowers and fruit, and numerous 

 large initials, capitals andfinials, THE WHOLE BRILLIANTLY PAINTED IN GOLD AND 



COLOURS, WITH THE MONOGRAM OF THE ARTIST IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 



STYLE ON THE LAST PAGE, black morocco extra, blind tooled to an antique ecclesiastical 

 design, with brass bosses, massive corner pieces, and centre clasp, gilt gaujfred 

 edges, 24 



A VERY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF MODERN ILLUMINATION, IN WHICH THE ARTIST HAS COMPLETELY 

 CAUGHT THE SPIRIT, HUMOUR, AND CRAFTSMANSHIP OF THE BEST MEDIAEVAL ILLUMINATORS. 

 The two large miniatures in the style of Jean Fouquet, measuring about 5 by 3 j -inches each, 

 are especially noteworthy. Equally good is the other miniature (5^4 by 5# -inches) executed in 

 the manner of the early xvth Century Parisian School. The varied borders are exquisite 

 examples of designs after the finest French, Flemish, and English work of the xvth Century, 

 a number of them are particularly noticeable for their extremely fine figure, animal, bird, insect, 

 flower and fruit work. 



[See Illustration.] 



105 INCUNABULA THOMAS AQUINAS. CONTINUUM IN QUATTUOR EVANGELISTAS, 

 sive Catena Aurea, Venetiis, H. Lichtensteyn, Coloniensis, atque J. Hamman, 

 spirensis socii, 1482, folio, QOtbtC ICttCC, two types, large and small, double 

 columns, rubricated throughout, with signatures, but no pagination, spaces left for 

 capitals^ which are supplied by hand in red, ORNAMENTED WITH A REMARKABLY 



BEAUTIFUL LARGE INITIAL S, 2^-incheS Square, EXECUTED IN RED, BLUE AND 

 GREEN, AND AN INITIAL R, SIMILAR IN DESIGN BUT OF SMALLER SIZE, Wants a I 



(a blank leaf}, Gi, and Xi and 2, OTHERWISE A VERY FINE LARGE COPY WITH MANY 



UNCUT LEAVES, old half calf, broken, ^5 



VERY RARE, AND A SPLENDID EXAMPLE or XVTH CENTURY VENETIAN TYPOGRAPHY. It is also 

 interesting as being the only known book printed in partership by Lichtensteyn and Hamman. 

 Lichtensteyn started printing at Vicenza about 1475, was printing in Treviso in 1477, returned 

 to Vicenza in 1478, moved to Venice about 1482 and after his brief partnership with Hamman 

 printed there on his own account until 1494. Hamman was printing on his own account at 

 Venice from Id. Oct., 1488 to 8 Sept., 1500. Hain *1334. 



THE FAMOUS REFORMER PHILIP MELANCHTHON'S COPY. 



106 INCUNABULA HIEROCLES. IN AUREOS VERSUS PYTHAGOR/E Opusculum 

 Proestantissimum et Religioni Christianas consentaneum, Patavii, Bartholomews de 

 Valdezoccho, XV. Kalendas Maias, 1474, EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THIS LATIN VERSION, 

 sm. 410, lettres rondes, long lines, 24 to the full-page, spaces left for the capitals, 

 which are supplied in red and blue, wants a\ (a blank leaf}, and #2, number of leaves 

 slightly wormed intypper blank margins, water stained at top, BUT A REMARKABLY FINE 



LARGE AND PRATICALLY UNCUT COPY WITH MANY ROUGH LEAVES, AND ALL THE 



SIGNATURES (except /4, just cut into), INTACT A CIRCUMSTANCE OF GREAT RARITY 

 IN THIS BOOK, old English red morocco, ornamental gold borders on the sides, gilt 

 back, worn, & los 



THIS COPY BELONGED TO PHILIP MELANCHTHON, THE FRIEND AND COADJUTOR OF LUTHER. 

 AND HAS TWO MS. NOTES IN HIS AUTOGRAPH, AND A NUMBER OF LINES OF TEXT UNDERSCORED 

 IN INK BY HIM. From the famous Kloss collection, so rich in books belonging to Melanchthon, 

 sold at Sotheby's in 1835. APART FROM ITS ASSOCIATION INTEREST, THE VOLUME IN A FINE 

 EARLY AND EXTREMELY SCARCE EXAMPLE OF THE PRESS OF PADUA *S PROTOTYPOGRAPHER. 

 Valdezoccho started the first press at Padua, in partnership with Martinus de Septem Arboribus 

 Prutenus in 1472. Commenced to print on his own account in |1473, but only 9 books are 

 known with his separate colophon, of which this is the 4th. The last is dated 1484. Copies 

 with the Signatures intact are extremely rare, for owing to their being placed at the far right 

 hand corners of uncommonly wide margins they are almost always cut away by binders. The 

 present copy also contains the scarce final blank leaf completing Signature M. *Hain 8545. 



