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Lot Comprises:

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Ilona Berkovits, Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus, Budapest, Corvina Press, 1964, fol., publisher's purple cloth, embossed, dust jacket

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Nicola Bono, Angela Dillon Busi, Marianne Rezsondai, et al., Nel segno del corvo, libri e miniature della biblioteca di Mattia Corvino, re d'Ungheria (1442‐1490), Modena, Il Bulino, 2002, fol., publisher's blue cloth gilt, dust jacket

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Csaba Csapodi, The Corvinian Library: history and stock (translated by Inure Gombos), Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1973, 4to., publisher's red cloth

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Jean-Francois Maillard, Istvan Monok, Donatella Nebbiai, Matthias Corvin, Les Bibliotheques Princieres et La Genese de L'Etat Moderne, Budapest, 2009

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Csaba Csapodi, Bibliotheca Corviniana: The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, New York, Praeger, 1969, fol., publisher's grey cloth gilt

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Csaba Csapodi, Bibliotheca Corviniana: The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Budapest, Praeger, 1981, fol., publisher's grey cloth gilt

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Csaba Csapodi & Klára Csapodi‐Gárdonyi, Bibliotheca Corviniana 1490‐1990, Budapest, National Széchényi Library, 1990, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Péter Farbaky, ed., Mattia Corvino e Firenze : arte e umanesimo alla corte del re d'Ungheria, Florence, Firenze Musei & Giunti, 2013, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Guglielmo Fraknói, Giuseppe Fógel, Paolo Gulyás & Edit Hoffmann, Bibliotheca corvina: La Biblioteca di Mattia Corvino Re d'Ungheria (translated by Luigi Zambra), Budapest, Editrice l'Accademia di Santo Stefano, 1927, fol., publisher's wrappers bound into cloth, one of 300 numbered copies, bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

André de Hevesy, La bibliothèque du Roi Matthias Corvin, Paris, Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, 1923, fol., publisher's portfolio with ties

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Jean‐M. Horemans, Le Missel de Mathias Corvin et la Renaissance en Hongrie, Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, 1993, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Georg Geisenhof, Bibliotheca Corviniana : Eine bibliografische Studie, (Braunschweig, 1900), reprint Nieuwkoop, 1964, 8vo., publisher's grey cloth gilt

Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490

Marcus Tanner, The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Sold as a group, not subject to return.