Lot 1005 , Dornhoffer, Friedrich. (editior). Seelengatlein (The Little Garden of the Soul).

° Dornhoffer, Friedrich. (editior). Seelengatlein (The Little Garden of the Soul). Hortulus Animae. Cod. Bibl. Pal. Vindob. 20706... 3 vols. many coloured plates and other illus. ll parts in original printed wrappers and contained in 3 printed cloth portfolios. Frankfurt A M: Jos. Bauer & Co.,ther with the accompanying handbook - Seelengartlein. Hortulus Animae... Erlauterungen Von Fried. Dornhoffer. 23 plates; original marbled wrappers with printed label, 4to. Frankfurt A.M. Jos. Bauer & co. 1911. * reproduction of this famous illuminated prayer book (Flemish school) of the early 16th Century; the copy being in the K.K. Hofbibliothek in Wien (the former Imperial Court Library in Vienna), as the titlepages are headed. (4)
£160-200

Condition:
handbk. - some spine wear and at corners, the text loose within them sl. loss lwr. wrapper, damp-marking and some paper loss bottom corners of text and plates throughout, but all clear of print/illus. 79pp., ownership of Miss Rosie Kearns; Main vols. - some marks on cloth portfolios (roy. 4to size) and some flaps damaged, o/w reasonably good. cond.