(27 cm), 141 (7) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 194 lots. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s boards, pictorial dust jacket. - Preface by John F. Hayward. The star lot was a suit of armour made by Giovan Paolo Negroli in Milan c. 1545 for Henri II of France (lot 44), sold to B.C. Trupin against the London arms dealer Howard Rickets for £1,925,000 (Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, catalogue accompanying an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998, pp.240-247 no. 47). A three-quarter suit of field armour made for Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, was sold for £330,000 to Howard Ricketts, the London agent for Ronald Lauder. Its export was stopped after an appeal (now Royal Armouries National Museum of Arms and Armour, II.360).

(27 cm), 133 (8) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Lots numbered 201-379. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s boards, pictorial dust jacket. - The sale of the Hever works of art realised £1,570,000, bringing the total for the two-day sale to £5.6m (roughly double Sotheby’s estimates). A Parisian ivory coffret of the first half of the 14th century, carved with eleven scenes from the life of St Eustace (lot 230), was sold for £418,000 to the New York dealer E. Lubin (in a New York private collection in 1993; present location unknown).