AN
opportunity to buy antiquarian bird books beckons next week at Sotheby’s salerooms in London.
The auction
- with pre-sale estimates in brackets - will include the following titles:
Gould: Birds of Europe in five
volumes (£40,000 – 50,000)
Dresser: Be-eaters (£5,000 – 7,000)
Sclater and
Salvin: Exotic Ornithology (£4,000 –
6,000)
Bewick: History of British Birds in two
volumes (£500 - 700)
Meyer: Illustrations
of British Birds in four volumes (£6,000 - 8,000)
Yarrell: A History of British Birds in four
volumes (£600 – 800)
The sale
on Friday (November 4) starts at 10.30am, and the
bird books will be first to go under the hammer.
Full details,
including illustrations, at
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| Henry Dresser's study on Bee-eaters is expected to bids upwards of £5,000 |
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