Sotheby's (London)

(27 cm), 233 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 564 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “Faced with a rather indifferent selection of continental printed books and manuscripts, the auctioneer on 1 December greeted a nearly empty room and by the end of the morning had bought in half the lots. The successes included several Aldines, among them Aristophanes, 1498, in an early binding (£9500, Chiesa), and Plato, 1513, in eighteenth-century morocco (£14,000, Quaritch)” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1994, p.98). ¶ Annotated copy.