Probier Buchlein... and Bergwerk...
The former Honeyman copy of the Probier Buchlein... and Bergwerk..., two rare booklets on assaying dated 1524 and ’33 (the latter with two leaves in photocopy) produced one of the shock results of Haskell F. Norman sale in 1998 when it made $80,000 – 20 times the estimate.
In the Freilich sale (Sotheby's New York, January 10 and 11), $42,500 (£29,310) was a more of a disa…