(27 cm), [448] pp., illustrations (many in colour). 198 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “There will, it is safe to say, never be such an opportunity to buy Italian illustrated books of this quality ever again” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1995, pp.80-84). The major lots were purchased by Chiesa; the one manuscript in the sale, a Neapolitan “Ars moriendi” written for Giovanni Marco Cinico and illuminated by Cola Rapicano, sold for $440,000 to Jörn Günther (his Catalogue 3, 1995, item 20). ¶ Unmarked copy.

(27 cm), [420] pp., illustrations (many in colour). 195 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “The second part of the Schäfer sale, held at Sotheby’s in London on 27 June, did not do as well as the Italian books in New York at the end of last year. There were two reasons for this: the market for French books is not as strong as that for Italian, and too many copies were washed and in nineteenth-century bindings. The wisdom of cataloguing the books in alphabetical order is questionable: three good sales might have been made of the early, ancien régime and modern books. The two grandest books in the sale sold amazingly cheap to Maggs, both alla greca bindings for Marcus Fugger, the 1544 Eusebius in a ‘Gomar Estienne’ entrelac for £120,000, and the 1550 Greek New Testament in polychrome entrelac with a pointillé background, even grander, for a mere £85,000. Some of the disappointment came from under-cataloguing…” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1995, p.384). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.

(27 cm), [404] pp., illustrations (many in colour). 210 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The sale “repeated previous form, good books selling well, others less so… Maggs paid $240,000 for the first Utopia in a fine near contemporary binding, and $625,000 for the clou of the sale, the magnificent Mansion Boccaccio 1476, with its primal engraved illustrations” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1996, p.87). ¶ Unmarked copy. No Price list.

(27 cm), 340 (8) pp., illustrations. 665 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Addenda loosely inserted (additional lots 666-668). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - This collection, assembled by Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), had been acquired en bloc by Otto Schäfer in 1972. Cf. B.H. Breslauer, “Jean Furstenberg, 1890-1982: portrait of a bibliophile” in The Book Collector, volume 31 (1982), pp.427-444. ¶ Unmarked copy.

(27 cm), [302] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 295 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Lots 212-295 are unsold items from the Schäfer sales conducted by Sotheby’s on 8 December 1994, 27 June 1995, 1 November 1995; “Descriptions are generally shortened from those in the earlier sales” (prefatory note). ¶ Unmarked copy. No Price list.