Aldine books fly high at auction

Aldine press books of the early 16th century, mostly it seems in a good but much later full morocco or calf bindings, produced a number of the higher bids in a recent Yorkshire sale.

At £2700 in a Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) sale of March 7, the most expensive of them, bound in…

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