Art from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

london: Christie's, 2017 4to (27 cm), 300 pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). Price-list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of the sale held in London on 27 November 2017. 429 entries including Natalia Goncharova "Still life with teapot and oranges" (GBP 2,408,750), Apollinarii Vasnetsov "Old Veliky Novgorod" (GBP 848,750), Vasily Vereshchagin "The Holy Family" (GBP 368,750), Fabergé silver rhinoceros (GBP 704,750).

BNF, 2015 8vo (24 cm), 271, [1] pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps. The catalogue of the exhibition held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on 24 March - 21 June 2015. Deploying an iconography of extraordinary richness, the remarkable work published on the occasion of the five hundred years of the advent of François I shows in a new light… Read more about this item

Annecy: Gardet, 1959 4to (33 cm), 138 pp. Publisher's boards (binding slightly rubbed and stained, bookseller's ticket on the front free endpaper). Limited to 1165 copies, this is no. 337 on vélin crème. Beautifully printed by Clément Gardet facsimile of the Hours of the Duc Louis of Savoie executed c. 1445-1460. Preface by Daniel-Rops, an introduction by Clément Gardet.

British Museum, 1894 4to (26 cm), [6], XLIII pp, 65 plates. Green Jansenist Morocco, commissioned by H. Sotheran & Co, London, with a gilt-lettered spine, inner gilt dentelles, and marbled endpapers (spine sunned, joints slightly rubbed). The book includes a collotype facsimile of the miniatures and borders from the Sforza Hours (British Library, London, Add. MS 34294). Painted by the… Read more about this item

Madrid: Imprenta de La Iberia, 1881 4to (29 cm), [4], XX, [6], [4] pp facsimile of a letter, [118] ff facsimile of the manuscript, [2], 76 pp. Contemporary leather-backed boards, front cover gilt, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed, blind stamp of the binder J. Gomez, Madrid, outer margins of two leaves worn, last leaves somewhat warped). An interesting example of… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2005 4o (27 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Piero della Francesca, one of the greatest painters of the fifteenth century, was also an accomplished mathematician. This book--the first combined study of Piero's work as a mathematician and as a painter--explores the connections between these two activities and thus enhances our understanding of both… Read more about this item

‎Paris: Vilo, 1974 8vo (22.5 cm), 32 pp (pamphlet in printed wrappers), 78 cards in board case, slip-case (minor shelf-wear). The Visconti-Sforza Tarot is used to refer to approximately 15 decks from the middle of the 15th century, now located in various museums, libraries, and private collections around the world. Visconti-Colleoni deck, reproduced here in beautiful facsimile, was produced… Read more about this item

Paris: Berthaud Frères, 1902 12mo (19 cm), 20 pp, 86 plates. Burgundy cloth, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in, whole book mounted on guards (withdrawn library stamps on front endpapers and verso front wrapper, else clean and firm copy). Lavishly illustrated Psalter of St. Louis (now Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Latin 10525) was made between 1253 and 1270. Done… Read more about this item

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), [6] pp, [38] ff of facsimile; 104 pp. Publisher's cloth, slip-case (slipcase slightly rubbed, spine somewhat sunned). The first volume is a facsimile, the second volume commentaries on the Cloisters Apocalypse. The illuminated manuscript was executed in Normandy, France c. 1330. It contains 72 half or full page miniature illustrations.… Read more about this item

Peter Nevill, 1962 4to (33.5 cm), 144 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket (some foxing of front leaves, paper slightly toned). 132 tipped in color illustrations. "Here, in a handsome volume containing over 130 beautiful colour plates, we find a history and an interpretation of the exacting art of illumination. What is illumination? How did it begin and develop? How did… Read more about this item

Thames and Hudson, 1968 4to (28.5 cm), 307 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket, paper slip-case (slip-case worn, dj slightly rubbed at extremities). 96 color and 64 half-tone plates. "In this book Dr Rothe has chosen one illuminated miniature from each of 160 manuscripts, all taken from the collections in German Democratic Republic. So rich and varied were the resources available,… Read more about this item

Paris: La Société française de reproductions des manuscrits à peintures, 1923 4to (28 cm), front., 35 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed). "The Hours of Étienne Chevalier" is an illuminated book of hours commissioned by Étienne Chevalier (1410-1474), treasurer to King Charles VII of France, from the miniature painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet. While 48 leaves with 47 miniatures were… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation, 1908 Cloth-backed portfolio, 4to (31.5 x 24.5 cm), 20 pp pamphlet, 11 plates (the paper of the covers slightly warped, the first and last pages of the pamphlet separated with the first having a small tear, foxing on one plate, a note in pencil on the front pastedown, back cover without a pastedown). This privately… Read more about this item

Phaidon, 1947 4to (30 cm), 38 pp, 82 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj stained and frayed at extremities, paper chipped at the head of the spine, endpapers toned, bookseller's ticket on front past-down). "In 1941 the British Museum acquired the finest surviving illuminated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy. Produced in the first half of the… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1959 8vo (24.5 cm), [24] pp, 32 plates. Publisher's boards, slipcase imitating wood (slipcase slightly rubbed at extremities). The Belles Heures is one of the celebrated Book of Hours created in the second decade of the 15th century for Jean, Duc de Berry, son of King John the Good and brother of Charles V and Philip… Read more about this item

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958 8vo (24.5 cm), [24] pp, 16 ff of plates. Publisher's boards, slip-case (slip-case rubbed at extremities). Includes an introduction by James J. Rorimer, descriptions of 32 miniatures and illustrations.

London: Christie's, 2003 8vo (21 cm), 232 pp. Laminated wrappers. Auction catalogue of a sale held in London on November, 9, 2023. The first time any works from the renowned Dalloul Collection have come to market. Included 48 masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World dating from 1938 to 2014. The auction is led by Mahmoud Saïd’s… Read more about this item

Kodansha America, Inc, 1987 4to (26 cm), 220 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: The art of the Japanese garden is a 1,500-year-old landscape design tradition that is still evolving, still instructive. Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens explains the fundamental principles of this tradition and describes how those principles may be applied to a… Read more about this item

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1984 4to (28 cm), (28.5 cm), 144 pp. Orange publisher's boards (binding slightly rubbed at extremities, small scratch middle of the front board). Short-title inventory of the book collection of the Belgian bibliophile Georges de Belder (1922-1982), now substantially in the Getty Research Institute. "The collection was formed over a period of some twenty years on principles… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2018 4to (27.5 cm), 400 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "For patricians in the Republic of Venice, paintings in manuscripts marking their appointment to high office expressed a tension between selfless service and individual ambition. Originally of value in confirming and instructing an elected officer, these unique documents were transformed through art into enduring monuments promoting… Read more about this item