Sotheby's (London)

(27 cm), 118 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 47 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (lot 47) a masterpiece of French manuscript illumination, an “Album De Croÿ”, one of a set of albums commissioned by Charles III de Croÿ as a pictorial record of his estates in France and The Netherlands, which realised £1,213,500 to Graham Arader Galleries. Charles de Croÿ’s albums have been the subject of extensive research in Belgium since the 1950s, culminating in the exhibition catalogue Les albums de Croy: exposition à la Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier du 22 septembre au 27 octobre 1979 (Brussels 1979), and series of facsimile reproductions edited by Jean-Marie Duvosquel (26 volumes, Brussels: Crédit Communal de Belgique, 1985-1996). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.