It sold for $460,000 (£317,240) to the Heritage Bookshop of Los Angeles at the Freilich sale (Sotheby’s New York) on January 10 and 11.
Euclid’s Elementa
In a beautifully preserved contemporary, and possibly Austrian binding of blind-stamped calf with brass fittings, this copy of Erhard Ratdolt’s 1482, first printing of Euclid’s Elementa, shows some slight waterstaining to the lower margins, but it remains one of the largest and freshest copies in existence – taller than even the Doheny, Honeyman-Garden and Haskell F. Norman copies.
