a 1500-1520 illustrated Herbal manuscript on vellum from Northern Italy with over 400 plants, and individually scattered luscious fruits as well as insects and a lizard
the Croÿ-Arenberg Book of Hours (Flanders, Ghent or Bruges, c. 1508-20) made for a high-ranking member of the English royal court, and illuminated by the Master of Sir George Talbot and a collaborator, the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Emperor Maximilian, the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary and artist from the circle of the Master of James IV of Scotland
the St. Pantaleon Legendarium, a collection of 18 saints’ lives including a full-page penwork diagram with 14 roundels with portraits of saints and other personalities that picks up the claim that Saint Servatius, first bishop of Maastricht and the city’s patron saint, was related to Jesus Christ
Meanwhile, Peter Harrington will present the rarest of all 15th century printed editions of Marco Polo’s travels, De le maraveliose cose del Mondo (second Italian edition, Brescia, 1500). One of only five known copies, it is the only complete incunable edition of Marco Polo to have appeared on the market in more than 30 years. Also offered will be a 14th century Chinese stone printing block used to produce paper currency under the Yuan dynasty, and a rare early Ming dynasty paper banknote, both associated with the French sinologist Paul Pelliot.
Also presented will be the first Kelmscott edition of Shakespeare’s Poems in a Songorski and Sutcliffe binding with more than 100 precious stones and mother of pearl inlays, and the Rex Tholomeus Portolan Chart (second-half of the 14th century), the earliest obtainable complete map of Europe, and the earliest to have appeared on the antiquarian market in more than a century.
The St. Pantaleon Legendarium. Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. Cologne, Abbey of St. Pantaleon, c. 1140-1180. 225 x 150 mm.
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Peter Harrington
The Marco Polo edition, printing block, and bank note
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Daniel Crouch Rare Books
Scotland's first road map
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Les Enluminures
Book of Hours (use of Rome) in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Italy, Florence, c. 1460-1475, featuring 19 historiated initials by Francesco di Antonio del Chierico (1433-1484)
On Daniel Crouch Rare Books' stand will be Scotland’s first road atlas, the first separate map of Scotland to be found in a book by Bishop John Leslie, and antiquarian city maps.
Taylor & Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain or Scotland (London 1776) was the work of George Taylor and Andrew Skinner's and shows more than 3,000 miles of roads in Scotland across 61 plates. The roads were individually surveyed and drawn at a scale of one-inch to the mile. Each page is divided into three vertical strips, showing the route along a particular road. The names of significant landowners are also included. The work proved so popular that the pair published a similar volume detailing the roads of Ireland in 1778.
Les Enluminures Paris will premiere a dedicated exhibition entitled Collecting Manuscript Paintings Today featuring more than 20 significant illuminated leaves and cuttings of Italian, French, Flemish, and English origin. Highlights include:
a leaf from the Hours of Isabella d’Este of Gonzaga, previously unknown and unpublished
an example of Florentine book illumination by goldsmith-turned illuminator, Francesco del Chierico
