Atlases, travel and natural history : including the properties of the most honourable the Marquess of Downshire, the Rt. Hon the Lord de Saumarez, Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Miller, GCVO, DSO, MC, Donald Angus also the valuable collection of atlases formed by the firm of John Bartholomew of Edinburgh and a fine set of Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838), the property of a nobleman (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Sotheby's, London, 21-22 June 1990)
London, Sotheby's, 1990
(27 cm), 298 (18) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 576 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1990
- Book illustration - Artists, American - Audubon (John-James), 1785-1851
- Prints - Artists, American - Audubon (John-James), 1785-1851
- Science books - Ornithology - Audubon (John-James), 1785-1851
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby's (London)
- Artists/Illustrators
- Audubon, John-James, 1785-1851
- Owners
- Downshire, Robin Hill, 8th Marquess of, 1929-2003
- Auction date
- 19900621
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