Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 1,610
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
RARE CARMELITE PRINTED HOURS (HORAE B.M.V.) Hore b[ea]te Marie virginis secundum usu[m] Hierosolymitanu[m]. 14 (of 15) large woodcut illustrations printed from 11 blocks; each page within different composite woodcut historiated border incorporating horizontal panel in lower margins, including depictions of seasonal occupations in calendar; printer's large woodcut device on last page. [95] (of [96]) leaves; lacks title.<> Printed in red and black throughout, on paper. 8vo, contemporary olive morocco over pasteboard, lavishly gilt-tooled to all-over pattern of arabesque stamps, volutes, and stars, surrounding the initials • C • F • B • (front cover) and • C • S • C • (rear cover), cover edges worn through, spine ends chipped, front cover detached; dark stain in upper inner corners throughout, scattered stains elsewhere, first several leaves loose, with wormholes in lower margins; gilt edges, gauffered to knotwork pattern. (Lyons: Stephanus de Basignana, 18 May 1516)
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Bohatta 1461; Brunet V, 1675-76; cf. Hoe sale, 12 January 1912, lot 1686 (<