Christie, Manson & Woods (London)

(25 cm), 65 (1) pp. 195 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Among the 195 “duplicates” were 30 incunabula, including nine from the Venetian presses of Vindelinus de Spira and Nicolaus Jenson, among them illuminated copies of the 1470 Augustine De Civitate Dei and 1472 Jenson Pliny (the former made £4400 to Chiesa; the latter failed to reach its reserve, and was bought in at £11,000). Saleroom reports in The Times, 19 November 1970, p.5, and The Book Collector, Spring 1971, pp.77-78. Unillustrated issue (also issued with 15 plates). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.