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Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Printed Books and Americana, 1961-06-05

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 131
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

(Dante, La Divina Commedia, the first edition with woodcut illustrations, Brescia, 1487; Hours of the Virgin, printed on Vellum, Valencia, 1486; Pliny, Historia naturalis, Venice, N. Jenson, 1472; Strabo, De situ orbis, Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1473; English Literature: The Book of Hunting, Hawking and Heraldry, St. Albans, 1486; Barnaby Googe, The Shippe of Safegarde, 1569; The first and second Prayer Books of Edward VI, 1549-52; Works by Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Browne, A letter to a friend, 1690, and a fine copy of the Kilmarknock Burns; A Sarum Missal, printed in Paris for Wynkyn de Worde, 1511; A magnificent Parisian Missal, c. 1350-60; A Psalter, English, 1430-40; Books of Hours, and the Sonetti e Canzoni of Petrarch, Italian, fifteenth century.)

Dates

  • created: 1961-06-05

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 621 Volumes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
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