Swann's second book sale in less than a week found extraordinary success, selling an astonishing 97% of the day's offerings.
Saint Thomas Aquinas' Commentum in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis, the third edition of a commentary on Aristotle's Physics, first published circa 1474, this copy dated 9 May 1492, was the day's top lot, bringing $9,600.
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, the first Baskerville edition of the King James Bible, in a superlative contemporary binding, one of 1250 copies, Cambridge, 1763, sold for $9,000.
Alessandro Pegolotti's Ditirambo di Alessandro Pegolotti fra gli Arcadi..., a scarce first edition of a volume of neo-classical verse by Pegolotti (aka Orialo Minieiano) of the Arcadian Academy, and a suberb example of Sir Edward Sullivan's decorative work, Mantua, 1711, rounds out the top three with $8,400.Labels: Alessandro Pegolotti, Aristotle, Baskerville, Bible, Early Printed Books, Orialo Minieiano, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Tobias Abeloff
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, the first Baskerville edition of the King James Bible, in a superlative contemporary binding, one of 1250 copies, Cambridge, 1763, sold for $9,000. 