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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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BREVIARY - BINDING Breviarium Romanum ex sacra potissimum Scriptura, Lyon, [Thibaud Payen], 1546
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £637.50 inc. premium
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BREVIARY - BINDING
Breviarium Romanum ex sacra potissimum Scriptura, edited by Francesco de Quignones, printed in red and black, woodcut device on title, ruled in brown ink, lacks 2 leaves (51 and 470), repair to blank corner of one preface leaf, occasional light dampstains and smudges, contemporary French morocco gilt, covers with gilt fillet border enclosing elaborate interlaced strapwork design, rebacked incorporating later morocco spine (lettered "Breviarum Romanum") with strapwork-style design, corners neatly repaired, preserved in black morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman [not in Adams or Bohatta], 8vo, Lyon, [Thibaud Payen], 1546
Footnotes
Scarce Lyon edition of the Breviary, collating [48], 496, with the revisions made by Francesco de Quignones.
Provenance: K.J. Hewett, bookplate.





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