The L.H.P. Klotz Collection of Incunabula, German Illustrated Books and Atlases. [ Christie's, auction catalogue, sale date: 2 November, 1994. ]

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd November, 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 248 pp, plates (including several in colour). 371 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: the first edition in German of Historia Alexandri Magni 1473; Antoninus Florentinus's Summa theologica 1477-79; A tall copy of Balbus's Catholicon, ca. 1475, in a contemporary Augsburg binding; An illuminated copy of the ninth German Bible, 1483; The first edition of Jacobus de Theramo's Belial, 1472, and Knoblochtzer's edition of the German text, 1478; Schönsperger's 1498 edition of Plenarium, with contemporary hand-colouring, in an Augsburg binding; A finely coloured copy of the Grüninger Virgil, 1502; A Strassburg illustrated edition of Steinhöwel's translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, 1535; And other illustrated German translations of classical and Renaissance texts; A fine Renaissance binding by Joachim Linck for Joachim, Duke of Anhalt; Willem and Johannes Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terranmi, 1640-55; Ortelius's Théâtre d l'Univers, 1587; Ptolemy's Liber Geographiae, Venice 1511; A fine early 18th-century manuscript survey of the estates of the Monastery of S. Paolo d'Argon, near Bergamo. With provenance and binding indexes. Fine, with folded and edgeworn photocopied sheet of prices realized loosely inserted.