Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris)
[Stock catalogues, hors série] Livres Gothiques en français imprimés entre 1477 et 1558
Paris, Librairie Thomas-Scheler, 2005
(30.5 cm), 76 pp., illustrations (most in colour). 22 items. Price list inserted. Publisher’s pictorial boards. - A remarkable catalogue, containing no less than twenty-two books, of which two are of “surpassing importance”: Olivier de La Marche, Le chevalier délibéré [Gouda: Printer of the ‘Chevalier déliberé’, after 31 October 1489], from the Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, price on application (subsequently with Jörn Günther, Catalogue 9: Masterpieces, 2008, item 41); and a Sammelband of ten Parisian incunables in a contemporary Parisian binding, also from the Bibliothek Otto Schäfer (ex-H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 135, 1973, item 6), price €950,000. Noticed in The Book Collector, Spring 2006, p.92. ¶ Extensively annotated in pencil on title-page.