Catalogue, Issues 165-174Bernard Quaritch Limited, 1896 - Antiquarian booksellers |
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... blue morocco , apparently by Thouvenin £ 8. d . [ Mentz , 1450-55 ] 4000 0 0 THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN EUROPE , as has been sufficiently demonstrated a year or two ago by the learned Dziatzko , who , until he made his exhaustive ...
... blue morocco , apparently by Thouvenin £ 8. d . [ Mentz , 1450-55 ] 4000 0 0 THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN EUROPE , as has been sufficiently demonstrated a year or two ago by the learned Dziatzko , who , until he made his exhaustive ...
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... blue sky . All the open spaces between the lines of the main design are filled with gold dots in triplets . The curves and sides of the figures ( like ornamental wood - carving ) formed by the black bands , are lightened with silver ...
... blue sky . All the open spaces between the lines of the main design are filled with gold dots in triplets . The curves and sides of the figures ( like ornamental wood - carving ) formed by the black bands , are lightened with silver ...
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... blue and brown . The frame of the ovals is red ; the dividing oblong is gold , and at the heart of the latter , on a black and brown centrepiece shaped like a vase , is the name , on one side , MARGARITE , and on the other , GVTHRE ...
... blue and brown . The frame of the ovals is red ; the dividing oblong is gold , and at the heart of the latter , on a black and brown centrepiece shaped like a vase , is the name , on one side , MARGARITE , and on the other , GVTHRE ...
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... ( blue , yellow , and silver ) is curled around the trunk , and from his month Eve ( a fair nudity in white silk with brown tresses ) takes the apple ; Adam with cropped brown hair and short beard stands in red and white naked- ness on ...
... ( blue , yellow , and silver ) is curled around the trunk , and from his month Eve ( a fair nudity in white silk with brown tresses ) takes the apple ; Adam with cropped brown hair and short beard stands in red and white naked- ness on ...
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... blue , is flanked by lower bushes , on the left a rose - tree , on the right a stem of tulips . A black - and - white dog is couching on the grass at the foot of the large tree . - On the other side there is an oak - tree with leaves ...
... blue , is flanked by lower bushes , on the left a rose - tree , on the right a stem of tulips . A black - and - white dog is couching on the grass at the foot of the large tree . - On the other side there is an oak - tree with leaves ...
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