Explore exquisite bindings and rare survivals from the Aldine Press

Sale Highlights

How Aldo’s heirs carried—and complicated—his legacy, from Venice to Rome and back again

The Aldine Afterlives

Grammars, lexicons, and practical compendia—works that fall outside the classical literary canon but were indispensable to Renaissance scholarship.

Grammars, lexicons, encyclopedias—books beyond the classical canon that shaped Renaissance learning.

Beyond the Canon

Explore the exquisite hand-painted illuminations that early owners added to their Aldines.

Gilt initials and painted arms reveal how Renaissance readers personalized their Aldines.

Wondrous Illuminations

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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.