Sotheby's (London)

(27 cm), [292] pp., illustrations (some in colour). Lots numbered 1-896. Errata sheet loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains a choice group of Continental books, including a book from Henry VIII’s library (Ockham’s Dialogus, Lyon 1494-1495; lot 83, £3080 to Quaritch); a heavily-annotated book from the library of Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III, later bound at Rome by Maestro Luigi (Velleius Paterculus’ Historiae Romanae, Basel 1520; lot 127, £17,600 to Henri Schiller); and the 1514 Aldine Vergil on blue paper (lot 128, £15,400 to Witten; now UCLA, Ahmanson-Murphy Collection, shelfmark Z233 A4V819 1514 c.2). Robinson’s main interest however was works on the discovery and history of Latin America; his copy of Alonso de Molina’s Spanish Mexican-Indian vocabulary (Mexico City 1555), from the convent of San Juan de Teotihuacan and Sir Thomas Phillipps collection (lot 450), realised £198,000 (H.P. Kraus; their Catalogue 185: Americana Vetustissima, New York 1990, p.132). Saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1986, p. 358. ¶ Occasional annotation. No Price list.