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62737.   Alexander, S. M.   Late medieval illumination; materials and techniques.   Austin, University of Texas, 1971.   Original stapled printed wrappers.   Fine.   7 pp.   Printed on rectos only.   $15.00

62963.   Borneman, Henry S.   Pennsylvania German illuminated manuscripts, a classification of Fraktur-Schriften and an inquiry into their history and art.   New York, Dover Publications, Inc. [1973].   Original wrappers.   Fine.   38 numbered plates, some in color.   Corrected republication.   $40.00

62985.   British Library.   The Benedictines in Britain.   [London, c1980].   Original printed wrappers.   Fine.   111 pp.   British Library series no. 3.   Text by D.H. Turner, Rachel Stockdale, Philip Jebb and David M. Rogers.   60 illustrations and 4 color plates.   $25.00

67589.   Harrsen, Meta.   The Nekcsei-Lipocz bible. A fourteenth century manuscript from Hungary in the Library of Congress, Ms. Pre-Accession 1. A study by Meta Harrsen.   Washington, The Library of Congress, 1949. Quarter blue morocco with blue cloth boards. Title in gilt on red skiver on the spine. Seal of the Library of Congress in gilt on the front cover. Corners lightly bumped, leather rubbed at the corners of the head and tail of the backstrip, otherwise fine. Plain dust jacket is soiled with pieces missing from the head and tail of the spine. A spot on the front cover appears to be a manufacturing blemish. One of 600 numbered copies. T.e.g. Oversize folio. Frontispiece in color. Forty-three illustrations in the text and Plates I to XX are in black and white.  $125.00

64440.   Schreyer, Lothar.   Die Botschaft der Buchmalerei aus dem ersten Jahrtausend Christlicher Kunst.   Hamburg, Friedrich Wittig Verlag [1959].   Original orange cloth.   Bookseller's label on the front pastedown.   Fine in dust jacket.   Zweite Auflage 1959.   144 pp.   19 color plates.   In five parts: Geschichte und Stil, Bild und christliche Verkuendigung, Bild und Gebet, Anleitung zur Bildbetrachtung, Anhang.   $35.00

64580.   Sweeney, James Johnson.   Irish illuminated manuscripts of the early Christian period.   [n.p.] Collins in association with UNESCO [1966].   Original printed wrappers.   Lower corner bumped, otherwise fine.   Reprinted 1966.   Text on 24 pp.   28 colored plates.   $15.00

64661.   Turner, D. H.   Romanesque illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum.   [London] Published by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1971.   Original printed wrappers.   Fine.   Reprinted 1971 (first published 1966).   31 pp. with 16 black and white plates and 4 color plates.   $20.00

64797.   Weitzmann, Kurt.   Late antique and early Christian book illumination.   London, Chatto and Windus [1977].   Original printed wrappers.   Wrappers lightly rubbed at edges, otherwise near fine.   126 pp.   48 numbered color plates, plus black and white illustrations in the text.   $25.00

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