Bruce Ferrini (16 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Lightly used, may have light reading wear and/or publisher's or previous owner's markings, but NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued, in Like New condition. Carefully packaged to avoid damage in shipping.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Missing. 1987. Red cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; title pasted on front board; minimal wear; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; no jacket. Illustrations in color and black and white; interior is clean and unmarked; 206 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.…

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 46 pp, colour ills. 61 items. Excellent descriptions and colour plates of 61 miniature illuminated manuscripts, spanning the 12th to 20th centuries. Wrappers creased and front wrapper somewhat stained. Price-list laid in.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, large folio, 32 pp, colour ills. 31 items. Each entry has a large colour illustration and a brief description. Name on title-page, wrappers slightly curled, otherwise Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, approximately 40 pp, colour ills. 20 items. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd, London, November - December 1989. With an introduction by Christopher de Hamel. Each item has a full-page description with a facing colour illustration. Very Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. none. 158p.

4to. cloth with title in gilt, dust jacket. 158 pages. Catalogue for exhibition of 25 illuminated manuscripts held in 2000. Price list laid-in. A fine copy in fine jacket. Contains several color photographs of each manuscript as well as information on its provenance, text, decorations, and general commentary about the work's history. Includes an introductory essay by Jonathan J. G. Alexander called "The Author as Authority in the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript." From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. cloth with title in gilt, dust jacket. Illuminated Manuscripts (illustrator).…

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 28 cm, 147 pp, colour ills. 43 items. From the Foreword: "This catalogue, and the exhibition it accompanies, grew out of two interrelated concerns; a conviction of the aesthetic value of illuminations as independent works of art in their own right and a conviction in the scholarly necessity of studying illuminated leaves and cuttings as membra disjecta from books. For this reason, the body of the catalogue is composed of two independant [sic] sections, presenting complementary descriptions of each of the forty-three items. Section 1 focuses on the artistic content (the style and iconography) and the historical context of items. Entries in Section I adapt a standard format used for catalogues of drawings, including at the beginning basic information on physical description, provenance, and literature. Entries in Section I thus treat the items as they were considered when they were collected, that is, as miniature paintings by (usually) identifiable artists. In this section, I have therefore deliberately refrained from discussing the items as fragments from books. Section II focuses on the codicological descriptions of items. Entries in Section II adapt a standard format of scholarly cataloguing that has gradually evolved for leaves and cuttings, in which they are treated as fragments from books, with all the implications resulting from this method. Full physical descriptions of the production, the script, and the illumination are provided. Actual rectos and versos are identified. The identifies and locations of sister leaves, that is, leaves that derive from the same original manuscript, are given. And the identity of the parent manuscript, when known, is provided. The scholar, working from information found in Section II, should easily be able to access either related leaves from the same manuscript or related manuscripts belonging to the same group. A working bibliography of basic references is supplied. The Introduction offers a brief sketch on collectors and collecting, focusing on the public sale in Paris of the collection of Frédéric Spitzer. Occuring in the 1890s, the Spitzer sale is a kind of watershed. Many old collections, most of which are now dispersed, predate it; and "new" collections - those of George Salting in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, of Pierpont Morgan in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, of John Frederick Lewis in the Free Library in Philadelphia - were formed right after it. The treatment of miniatures as independent paintings in the Spitzer sale departs significantly from earlier Victorian attitudes toward illuminations as curiosities and forms the basis of the aesthetic attitude toward miniature painting presented here." Catalogue of an exhibition held at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, Nov.-Dec. 1988 and at Maruzen Co. Ltd., Tokyo and Nagoya, Feb.-Mar. 1989. Near Very Good.…

Paperback.

Hardback large quarto, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), colour illustrations (mostly full-page), frontispiece, price list loosely inserted. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 158 pp. This art catalogue brings together 25 new acquisitions of mostly illuminated manuscripts that span the period from the 11th century to the 17th century. Full textual and pictorial descriptions are accompanied by detailed commentaries and organized into five sections that complement each other: Biblical manuscripts, manuscripts of Italian and Spanish origin, manuscripts of French and Flemish origin, literary manuscripts, and later or post-medieval manuscripts. The manuscripts in this catalogue are planned to exhibit at exhibitions in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Paris. (Loosely inserted: price list ranging from $US75,000 to $US 7,000,000.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 4to (33.5 cm), ca. 80 pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf wear). Price list loosely inserted. A joint private exhibition catalogue issued by Dr. Jörn Günther, Antiquariat (Hamburg) and Bruce P. Ferrini (Akron), two leading figures in the international trade of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books. The catalogue presents 39 items ranging from the early Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, comprising illuminated manuscripts on vellum, isolated miniature leaves, and early printed books. Each entry is described in detailed bibliographical and art-historical terms, with particular attention to illumination, provenance, codicological structure, and the history of collection and dispersal. The manuscript section includes a wide chronological and geographical range of works from major European centres of production. Among the highlights are a Spanish Evangeliary of the late eleventh century; a thirteenth-century copy of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica from southern Germany; a Parisian Breviary associated with the Congregation of St. Mathurin; a Florentine manuscript of Jean Vignay's Les épîtres et les Évangiles de tout l'an; a richly illuminated copy of Jerome's Epistolae from Florence; and a papal prophetic manuscript of the Vaticinia Pontificum. A particularly important highlight is the Livre de la chasse of Gaston Phébus, one of the most desirable secular manuscripts of the late medieval aristocratic tradition, offered as a joint top lot of the sale. The section of single leaves includes historiated initials attributed to Niccolò da Bologna and other Italian workshops, as well as isolated miniatures from high-quality liturgical manuscripts. These fragments illustrate both the dispersal of medieval codices and the modern market for manuscript leaves as collectible art objects. The early printed books section includes major incunabula and early vernacular editions, most notably a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (the so-called "Rendsburg copy") and a Nuremberg German Bible printed by Sensenschmidt and Frisner in the 1470s. A high-level private exhibition catalogue of considerable significance, documenting the convergence of scholarship, connoisseurship, and the international manuscript trade at the end of the twentieth century, and reflecting the shared expertise of two of the most influential dealers in the field.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 158 p.

Antiquariatskatalog, ohne Preise. Buchmalerei, Inkunabeln. Handschriften. Bibliophilie. - Gutes Exemplar ohne Stempel oder Namenszüge. (MT08a).

Akron, Ohio, Bruce Ferrini, 2000 , in-8°, red publisher's cloth, 157 pp, describes 31 book of hours, pricelist loosely inserted. Copy from the private library of a Brussels' bookdealer, with some minor annotations at some places. Nice copy.