Christie's (New York)

(26 cm), [152] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 203 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “The best of half a dozen Sang sets of signers of the Declaration of Independence, ‘best’ because it contained the highest proportion [43] of 1776 documents, brought a buoyant $320,000 [$352,000 inclusive of premium] to Kenneth Rendell” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1984, pp.348-349. The manuscript of Traherne (lot 74) – containing some 4200 lines of unpublished verses – was purchased for $110,000 by the British Library (Hilton Kelliher, “The rediscovery of Thomas Traherne” in The Times Literary Supplement, 14 September 1984; p.1038). Includes a group of Aldines collected by Thomas B. Stevenson (lots 83-92); The Library of Congress bought the Aldine Virgil (lot 85), the first book printed in italic type, filling a conspicuous gap in the Library’s collections. ¶ Unmarked copy. No Price list.