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16 - Bestiarium. Facsimile of the Ashmole 1511 bestiary manuscrip…
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Bestiarium. Facsimile of the Ashmole 1511 bestiary manuscript, held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, accompanied by commentary by Xénia Muratova and Daniel Poirion and a French translation by Marie-France Dupuis and Sylvain Louis. Paris, Club du Livre, 1984. 2 vols. In-4°. The facsimile is bound in fawn sheepskin, with a spine featuring six blind-stamped false ribs, a gilt title, the upper cover decorated in brown and black against a background of interlacing gold lines at the intersections, featuring an embossed leather design depicting a griffin within a bestiary mandorla and foliage, with a brown cloth slipcase edged in fawn sheepskin; the study book on the manuscript (156 pp.) is bound in half fawn sheepskin, with a smooth spine and gilt title, and comes with a brown canvas slipcase (Jean Ardouin). The commentary volume is followed by ‘Studies for a Bestiary’: 11 pages of original drawings by Luben DIMANOV. Numbered copy. Spine slightly sun-faded.
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS
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Auction time 09/11/2026 at 2:00 PM
Ref. : 226197 - 137.137
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