(25 cm), 215 (5) pp., including folding colour frontispiece, black & white text illustrations. Lots numbered 1-344. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - First portion of the library assembled at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, by Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), consigned for sale by his son, John P.W. Ehrman (1920-2011). In the first session, the top price of £34,000 (estimate £3000-£4000) was paid by H.P. Kraus for the Cologne 1471-1472 Bartholomaeus Anglicus, the first book on which William Caxton is known to have worked when he was learning his trade in Cologne (now Princeton, William H. Scheide Library, SC4.4.6). The sale is arranged in alphabetical order of the towns where the books were printed; the first lot was a book printed at Abbeville in 1487 (estimate £2000-£3000; sold for £16,000 to Tulkens). ¶ Annotated with prices and buyers’ names. No Price list.

(25 cm), 260 (38) pp., colour frontispiece, black & white illustrations. Lots numbered 345-698. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - The star lot in the second sale was the blockbook Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis for which H.P. Kraus paid £180,000 (estimate £35,000 to £50,000), the second highest auction price on record for any printed book. The volume had passed through Sotheby’s in 1947, when it made £6800. The total of the two-day sale was £701,445, with no unsold lots. ¶ Annotated with prices and buyers’ names. No Price list.