Cover title: Rare and valuable books, including important incunabula from the stock of the Brick Row Book Shop, Inc., New York and from the library of its client H.A. Astlett, Esq., formerly Montclair, N.J., sold by their order.

469 lots.

"Sale number 1462"--Prelim.

Date of sale: November 4 and 5, 1953.

Biblia Germanica Augsburg: Zainer, 1475-76, autographs and documents of members of the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787, the first illustrated copy of the Divina commedia, Hieronymus: Vita e epistole printed at Ferrara, 1497, the Editio Princeps of the Vita Christi, Strassburg, 1474, Nicolaus de Lyra's Postillae super biblia, Strassburg: Mentelin, circa 1472, the Nuremberg Chronicle, the Kelmscott Chaucer, Petrus de Albano: Expositio Problematum Aristotelis Secundus, Venice, 1482, Historia naturale of Plinius Secundus with initial portrait of Pliny, Venice: Jenson, 1476, Quintilianus: Institutiones oratoriae, Venice: Jenson, 1471, The second folio of Shakaspeare, with the Hawkins imprint, the Editio Princeps by the R-Printer of Vincentius Bellovacensis: Speculum Naturale, 1478.

Place of sale: New York.