Special re-issue for the 1981 presidential inauguration of Christie, Manson, & Woods auction catalogue for sale of 12 Dec. 1980, devoted entirely to the Codex Leicester (now Codex Hammer). This issue (funded by the Armand Hammer Foundation) can be identified by special dust-jacket from which bracketed information above is taken and by MS note signed by Ronald Reagan pasted over title-page information.

Includes introduction by Carlo Pedretti, facsimile (reduced) of entire text of MS, partial transcription and translation, and bibliography.

Rare Book Room copy gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Spiller.