Perryville revisited for bargains

A 1467 second edition of the second part of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae, a massive treatise on moral rather than dogmatic theology that stands as an independent work, was one of the earlier printed highlights of a $4.69m (£2.97m) sale held by Sotheby’s New York on December 13, and once again it was one of a number of lots making a rapid return to the rooms.

Printed by Peter Schoeffer of Mainz, this tall copy in contemporary blind-stamped goatskin over boar…

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