Ursus Rare Books Catalogue 339 Juxtapositions CATALOGUE 339 Juxtapositions T. Peter Kraus URSUS RARE BOOKS, LTD. 50 East 78th Street Suite 1C New York, New York 10075 (212) 772-8787
[email protected] [email protected] Please visit our website at: www.ursusbooks.com Shop Hours: Monday - Friday 10:30 - 6:00 Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 Please inquire for complete descripitons and further images. All prices are net. Postage, packing and insurance are extra. Ursus Rare Books Cover Image: Nos. 23 & 24 Back Cover Image: Nos. 39 & 40 New York City 1. JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO 2. Henri MATISSE De Claris Mulieribus. Florilège des Amours. Edited by Albertus de Placentia and Augustinus de Casali Maiori. [IV], [I] - CLXX (i.e., 176 folio leaves, By Pierre de Ronsard. 185, [5] pp. Illustrated with 126 lithographs, 125 in sanguine and 1 in black, of misnumbered throughout). Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Folio, 294 x 195 mm, bound by Fairbairn which 31 are full-page. Folio, 382 x 283 mm, bound by P.-L. Martin in 1966 in full crushed tan morocco, & Armstrong in full green straight-grained morocco. Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 29 April smooth chocolate brown calf onlays in floral patterns on both covers and spine, abstract but sensuous gilt 1497. filets on top of the design, spine lettered in gilt, with original wrappers bound in. Preserved in matching $ 87,500.00 half-morocco chemise and slipcase. Paris: Albert Skira, 1948. $ 125,000.00 First Edition of one of the foremost illustrated books of the Italian Renaissance. The artist responsible for the illustrations has evaded identification for 500 years, but all the major authorities on early illustrated books concur that Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo’s De Claris Mulieribus is one of the most beautiful A key illustrated book by Henri Matisse which took eight years to produce, bound in an attractive designer illustrated books of the incunabula period.