The Wormsley Library: A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E.

Binding by Paul Bonet

Binding by Paul Bonet, 1957
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)
Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon
Paris: par le Groupe de Bibliophiles et Amateurs d'Art, Scripta et Picta, 1937
Illustrated with 107 colored lithographs in text and 34 large decorated initials by Raoul Dufy
Quarto
330 x 250 x 33 mm
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Claudius Ptolemaeus

Claudius Ptolemaeus image

Claudius Ptolemaeus
Cosmographia
Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482
Royal folio, with 32 full-sheet, folding, hand-colored maps printed from woodblocks
419 x 281 x 42 mm
Bound in red goatskin, gilt, by Derome le jeune, ca. 1780
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Psalterium

Psalter of Anne Boleyn

[Psalterium]
Psalter ("Psalter of Anne Boleyn"), in French
France, Rouen, 1529–32
Illuminated by the Master of the Ango Hours for Anne Boleyn
Octavo manuscript on vellum, 274 leaves, with 2 full-page coats-of-arms and 16 armorial initials, in French humanistic script
127 x 87 x 33 mm
Bound in white satin in London, ca. 1630, embroidered in silks with the motif of the pelican feeding her young (the Pelican in her Piety) on the front cover and flowers on the back.
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The Ottobeuren Gradual

Image of The Ottobeuren Gradual

The Ottobeuren Gradual
Gradual, Sequentiary, and Sacramentary, in Latin
Germany, Ottobeuren Abbey, ca. 1164
Written and illuminated for Abbot Isingrim
Quarto manuscript on vellum, 246 leaves, in a Germanic Romanesque minuscule
265 x 193 x 68 mm
Bound in late-sixteenth-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards
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