Sotheby's (London)

(27 cm), 188 (8) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 382 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes a group of rare 17th-century Peking imprints (lots 224-230), harmoniously bound, and apparently from the same consignor; a volume of three separate works by Verbiest (Compendium, Astronomia Europaea, Liber organicus) made the top price (lot 226; £54,300; now Getty Research Library). Saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1996, pp.370-373. ¶ Annotated copy.