William H. Schab (New York)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 19] Rare books and manuscripts of the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth centuries : comprising the editio princeps of Thomas à Kempis Imitatio Christi; two books printed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1459; the famous Dante edition of 1481 with all 199 Botticelli's engravings; first edition of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis; first editions of the Greek tragedians
New York, William H. Schab, [1953]
(23.5 `cm), (2) 92 (2) pp., text illustrations. 138 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 13, $10,000) the Fountaine–Fairfax Murray–Terry–Wilmerding copy of the first illustrated edition of the Divine Comedy (it had realised $6250 in the Wilmerding sale, Parke Bernet, 29 October 1951, lot 266; returned to the market in the Schäfer sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 8 December 1994, lot 66, $220,000). ¶ Annotation on cover in red crayon.