Further to our post of 7 March, Bloomsbury Auctions have now published the results of the sale of ‘Books from the Ecclesiastical Collection of Joseph Mendham (1769-1856)’, which was held in London on 20 March. Of the 339 lots, all except one (lot 295) sold on the day. The biggest hammer price (£9,000 or £11,160 inclusive of premium) was for lot 39, a New Testament of 1535 in Greek and Latin, with commentaries by Erasmus. The full list of lots with sale prices can be viewed at:
http://www.bloomsburyauctions.com/cms/pages/lots/36123
Meanwhile, Messrs Sotheby’s have announced that sale number L14402, ‘Music & Books & Continental Manuscripts’, to be held in London on 20 May, will feature ‘further books from the Law Society’s Mendham Collection, including the first edition of Wyclif’s works, printed in Worms in 1525, and a unique Venetian incunable’. The preliminary announcement, with a catalogue to follow, can be found at:
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/music-continental-books-manuscripts-l14402.html
Further sales from the 5,000-volume Mendham Collection will doubtless follow in due course. This year is therefore likely to see the complete dismemberment by the Law Society of one of the country’s most important religious libraries formed in the nineteenth century, the cataloguing of which the British Library funded. Many of the items seem destined to be lost to public access in the process.
Dr Clive D Field, OBE
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