Sotheby's to Host Auction Filled With Renaissance-Era Books

Sotheby's is gearing up to host an auction filled with Renaissance art and books worth up to $25m USD. Commencing in October, the sale includes publications and bindings from the collection of acclaimed American scholar, T. Kimball Brooker, who spent 60 years putting together one of the finest rare-book libraries in the world. Highlights of the sale include an early manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting, which was copied and compiled by the Italian polymath's lifelong assistant,...