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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
by Georg, Joris Bocskay, Hoefnagel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 089236212X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892362127
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Getty, Malibu, 1992. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. GEORG BOCSKAY and JORIS HOEFNAGEL. Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, Malibu: Getty Museum, 1992. 12mo, facsimile of a 16th-century manuscript, pp. x, 412, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering and calligraphic decoration on front, slipcased, color illustration. Model Book of Calligraphy was written by the scribe Bocskay in 1561-62 and illuminated by Hoefnagel 30 years later with flowers, insects and other images of the natural world. He added an alphabet, bringing the total number of pages to 150. They are reproduced here in the original size. The rest of the book is made up of essays by 2 experts on the manuscript. Condition of this book: Fine in stained slipcase. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 089236212x. ISBN/EAN: 9780892362127. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53750. . 9780892362127
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- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53750
- Title
- Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
- Author
- Georg, Joris Bocskay, Hoefnagel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 089236212X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892362127
- Publisher
- Getty
- Place of Publication
- Malibu
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Art & Design; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 089236212x EAN: 9780892362127 Georg, Joris Bocskay, Hoefnagel Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
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