Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)

(25.5 cm), 120 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 236 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes books from the library of Sir David Salomons (1851-1925), consigned by the L.A. Mayer Memorial Foundation. “Despite the fact that these were more of them bound by Riviere than Derome, the French dealers were out in force and prices were correspondingly high” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1986, pp.357-358). Further selections of Salomons books were offered by Christie’s, London, 3 December 1986 and 13 May 1987. Consigned anonymously (lot 219) and bought for £31,320 (estimate £4000-£6000) by Edward Douglas Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, was an illuminated manuscript of Livy’s Historiarum Romanorum, c. 1467; according to a saleroom report, the other half of the manuscript was already at Holkham, acquired early in the 18th century by the first Earl of Leicester (Geraldine Norman, in The Times, 26 June 1986, p.4). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No price list.