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Thames and Hudson, 01 January, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover, great reading copy. Bind is sturdy and intact, text and illustrations clean throughout. Board no longer covers spine, webbing is on the outside. Bind does not suffer as a result. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Spine torn. Slipcase Good.

Hardcover. Fine. Box torn at top and on tipped on title sheet. Book appears unused.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fine copy in very good slipcase. 1958. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 60 pp. .

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Cloisters, 1958. Book. Good. Hardcover. Ex lib. Unpaginated, introduction, description of plates, 32 color plates from breviary; 8vo, tan boards. Label front cover, label The Library St. Mary-of-the-Woods inside front cover, names, embossed seal title page, very good-; contents fine; in original carton . Carton has breaks in paper covering, short tear, good..

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Used - Very Good. 1958. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Sm 4to, unpaginated, near fine in gilt-stamped boards and moderately worn board slipcase. 31 color illustrations. (Subject: Medieval, Art & Illumination.)

Hardcover. Good. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 x 9 1/2”. Unpaginated [54 pp]. Very good in a good slipcase. The extremities of the slipcase are split and rubbed. The interior of the book appears unmarked. The binding is solid.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 50 pp., mottled cream paper covered hard cover bdg with gilt-stamped front board & spine. Finely reproduced 32 full colour illuminations and monochrome reproduction of the Duke of Berry's ex-libris at the front. A pristine copy in its original glssine DJ(slightly scuffed top edge back) In VG slipcase.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. First. hardcover. fine. 32 color plates, 1 collotype facsimile. Text ornaments by Fritz Kredel. Unpaginated. Thin 8vo, gilt-lettered faux parchment boards, slipcase (broken). New York: The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. A fine copy in a good box.<br/> <br/>

New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1958.. 24pp., 32 color plates. Sm. 4to. Boards. Slipcase.

New York: At the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x0. Includes publisher's slipcase and glassine jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket and slipcase a bit toned. 1958 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Introduction by James J. Rorimer. "The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or Belles Heures of Jean de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours (containing prayers to be said by the faithful at each canonical hour of the day) commissioned by the French prince John, Duke of Berry (French: Jean, duc de Berry), around 1409, and made for his use in private prayer and especially devotions to the Virgin Mary. The Belles Heures is one of the most celebrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages and very few books of hours are as richly decorated as it. Although including all the elements that other books of hours contain, each section of the Belle Heures is customized to the personal wishes of its… Read More

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Very Good+. 1958. Hardcover. The most impressive treasure of the cloisters. The intoduction is followed by numerous beautiful illuminations in the rear of the book. Including original glassine covers (lightly torn in G+ condition) as well as the slipcase (with a bit tanned label and minor rubbing to extremities, in VG condition). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .

New York: The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Faux vellum with gilt lettering, slipcase with wraparound paper label. (Ca. 75pp). 32 full-page color plates, single sepia-tone plate. Near fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear only. Handsome first of this edition, introduced by the Metropolitan's noted director and with Cloisters curator Margaret B. Freeman providing explanatory texts for each of its color plates. The celebrated Book of Hours is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts of the 15th century.

At The Cloisters/Museum of Modern Art, 1958. Fine. Gray marbled covers, very bright gilt lettering and shield on front,very bright gilt lettering on spine, neat ink note at top of first front end paper, 32 descriptions of beatiful color-illustrations on heavy glossy paper, in slipcase with colorful label slightly browned overall. Near Very Fine book in Very Good slipcase.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice looking book, has minor edge wear. has tears on dust cover box.

Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Fine. Marble colored boards in slipcase, information on box slightly brown. Very Fine book/Near Fine box.