Thinking caps on for works of Confucius at Catherine Southon auction
Sold online at £5500 in a February 2 sale held by Catherine Southon (24% buyer’s premium) at Farleigh Court Golf Club in Surrey was a copy in full mottled calf gilt of the first European edition of the works of Confucius (551-479BC).
Printed in Paris in 1687, it was a translation undertaken by Jesuits, under a special licence gran…