(27 cm), 180 pp., illustrations (most in colour). 76 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The sale “was grossly over-estimated and paid the price in lots bought in… Pickering, who supported the sale vigorously, bought the 1463 Mentelin edition of the same text [Aquinas, Summa theologica], the Grolier-bound Ship of Fools in Latin (Strassburg, 1511) and 1495 Basel Aquinas on the Pauline epistles in the remains of an embroidered binding for £42,000, £90,000 and £100,000… Three Giordano Bruno texts (an odd de-accession), De Umbris Idearum with Cantus Circaeus 1582 at £55,000 the top price, went to the same Italian buyer [Philobiblon], who also bought the 1517 Scholia in Homerum on vellum at £68,000” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 2001, p.89). ¶ Unmarked copy.

(27 cm), 294 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 122 lots. Publisher’s pictorial boards. - The books were “insanely over-estimated (who was deluding whom?), and barely half the lots sold… High expectations were only exceeded by the very fine copies of the 1482 Euclid (£280,000, Watson) and Pascal Pensées 1670 (£120,000, Quaritch)” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 2002, p.100). The superb catalogue is accompanied by a preface (”The Texts of Incunables”) by Paul Needham, together with his innovative “Index of authors and texts” (pp.250-269) and detailed “Index of provenance” (pp.270-274). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No Price list.