(HORAE B.M.V.) Le Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne. ENTIRELY LITHOGRAPHED IN COLORS AND GOLD THROUGHOUT. With accompanyingtext volume. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary black morocco lavishly gilt by PETIT, successor to Simier, with

(HORAE B.M.V.) Le Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne. ENTIRELY LITHOGRAPHED IN COLORS AND GOLD THROUGHOUT. With accompanyingtext volume. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary black morocco lavishly gilt by PETIT, successor to Simier, with the arms of the ( 11th?) Duke of Hamilton surrounded by his repeated monogram on covers navy silk doublures and endleaves; first few leaves of facsimile volume loose; upholstered black morocco folding case (worn, front panel loose). Paris: L. Curmer, 1861 E1000-2000 FIRST EDITION IN BOOKFORM. ONE OF 850 SETS of a facsimile the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, ". . . commissioned from Jean Bourdichon around 1500 . . . one of the most magnificent Books of Hours ever made. . . A very special feature of the Grandes Heures is the botanical accuracy with which the flowers are depicted in the borders and given both their Latin and popular French names" (Harthan). The second volume contains a French translation by the Abbe Delaunay of the Latintext, and a catalogue by Joseph Decaisne of the plants shown in the borders. Harthan, pages 128-33; Ray, The Art of the French IllustratedBook 265 ("in its way . . . one of the most notable French flower books"); Vicaire V, 335-38.