16 Apr 2012
10:00 EDT
New York
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
PROCESSIONAL—DOMINICAN USE.
Processionarium im ordine fratrum predicatorum. Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, November 10, 1545.
8vo (165 x 110 mm). pi4(-pi1) a-x8 y4(-y4). Printed in red and black. Music throughout. Full-page woodcut title incorporating a crucifixion, full-page woodcuts of a procession and of a Guidonian hand (a mnemonic device to describe the use of hexachord). Woodcut initials. Period blind-stamped calf, brass clasps (one lacking clasp). Lacking 2 leaves (blanks?), headlines trimmed, few small repairs to lower margins, modest toning, minor rubbing to binding, attractive.
Provenance: Leo Olschki (bookseller's label); Thomas Gambler Parry (bookplate).
8vo (165 x 110 mm). pi4(-pi1) a-x8 y4(-y4). Printed in red and black. Music throughout. Full-page woodcut title incorporating a crucifixion, full-page woodcuts of a procession and of a Guidonian hand (a mnemonic device to describe the use of hexachord). Woodcut initials. Period blind-stamped calf, brass clasps (one lacking clasp). Lacking 2 leaves (blanks?), headlines trimmed, few small repairs to lower margins, modest toning, minor rubbing to binding, attractive.
Provenance: Leo Olschki (bookseller's label); Thomas Gambler Parry (bookplate).
Sold for
US$ 687
inc. premium
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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