(28 cm), [160] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 100 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue compiled by Felix de Marez Oyens. ¶ Annotation in one margin; very good copy.

(24 cm), [142] pp., illustrations (some beta radiographs of watermarks). 106 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue compiled by Felix de Marez Oyens, who in his entry for a copy of Jerome Epistolae (Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 1470) “set[s] new standards in the presentation of early printed books… we have seen no more informative bibliographical tour de force for a very long time” (noticed in The Book Collector, Winter 1984, p.510). “Of particular interest is the emphasis placed on paper… Over half the [106] books in the present catalogue are incunabula, and in all cases descriptions of the paper are given, along with type identifications and line-counts. Another admirable feature in the catalogue is the identification of binding stamps, where possible, for the books in contemporary bindings… Here are no fewer than six books written or edited by Sebastian Brant, others by Celtes and Wimpheling; editiones principes of Apollonius Rhodius, Oppian, Suidas, Seneca, and Ptolemy; many interesting sixteenth-century authors, as well as a few from later periods. Some of this richness is accounted for by the fact that the firm of Lathrop C. Harper was a heavy buyer at the recent Sexton sale, for many of the incunabula come from that great collector's library.” (from a review by James E. Walsh, in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, volume 79, 1985, pp.443-445).¶ Good, unmarked copy.