The Thomas Vroom Collection Put in Perspective

Result EUR226,367

Published on 25 November 2019, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 14 November 2019 - 17:00 (CET) - Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

This group embodying the birth of modern architecture, no less, was greeted with honour beneath Drouot's dome.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), De re ædificatoria, Florence, Nicolaus Laurentius... The Thomas Vroom Collection Put in Perspective

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), De re ædificatoria, Florence, Nicolaus Laurentius Alamanus, 1485, in-folio.
Result: €226,367

The sale of this remarkable library, entitled "A history of perspective", totalled €2,386,455 thanks to numerous glowing results, despite the fact that the first treatise on the subject printed in Europe, written by Jean Pèlerin, found no buyer. A serious theme providing material for books assiduously collected…

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BIBLIOTHEQUE THOMAS VROOM, Histoire de la perspective

Thursday 14 November 2019 - 17:00 (CET) - Live

Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris

Pierre Bergé & Associés

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The Invention of Perspective

Four hundred books on perspective, including topics such as optics, mathematics, and architecture, are leaving Thomas Vroom's library, illustrating the prolific research on the subject.