HOURS PRINTED FOR THE USE OF AMIENS. These present... Lot 295

[HOURS PRINTED FOR THE USE OF AMIENS]. These present hours with the use of // amiens throughout without riens reque=//rir auecques the grans suffraiges were // nouuellement printed in Paris for // Guillaume eustace bookseller iure of lu=//niuersite of the aforementioned city [...]. [In the colophon :] These present hours [...] were printed in Paris, by Gille couteau Lan one thousand five hundred and thirteen For Guillaume eustace bookseller demourant in the aforementioned city has the street of the iuistie has the sign of the two sagitaries or in the Palace to the // third pillar [Paris, Gilles Couteau for Guillaume Eustace, 1513]. In-4° (135 x 195 mm), black morocco, double framed with cold-stamped serrated fillets and roulettes on the boards, spine ribbed (period binding). 112 ff, Signed: a8, b4, c8, d-e4, f-m8, A8, B-D4 & E8.The table of Easter feasts ("Almanach pour. XVI. ans") covers the years 1512 to 1527.Text in gothic characters, in Latin and French (prayers and orations in fine).28 lines per page, publisher's mark (aux Deux Sagittaires) on title, & 32 OTHER WOODEN ENGRAVED FIGURES, including TEN LARGE and FIFTEEN SMALL ones; very wide ornate border framing some pages.A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THESE RARE "LARGE HOURS" FOR THE USE OF AMIENS, ENLUMINATED, IN ITS OLDER TIME BINDING.Bohatta, 6; Alès, 14.