Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Among the many exceptionally rare treasures within the Brooker collection, the crown jewel is an unprecedented, extensive group of Renaissance-era volumes published by Aldus Manutius, which T. Kimball Brooker began collecting in earnest in the mid-1960s. Based in Venice beginning in the late fifteenth century, Aldus would become one of the most revered and influential book publishers of all time. Numbering approximately 1,000 volumes published from the 1490s to the 1590s, the Brooker collection marks the largest assemblage of Aldines to come to market in a century, and the only private library of its kind ever amassed outside of Europe. Offered in a series of three sales, the third and final of which, “Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z,” will be held on 25 June 2025.

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