Sunday, 19 October 2025

Bidding likely to be brisk for First Edition of bird book by Victorian artist-naturalist William Swainson

A First Edition volume of William Swainson's Fauna Boreali-Americana  (1831) is one of the lots in a sale currently being  held online by the New York branch of auction house Bonhams. It contains some 50 engraved and lithographed colour plates including the study above  of two Magnolia Warblers. The pre-sale guide price is US$2,000 - US$3,000 (£1,500 - £2,200). The sale ends on Thursday October 23.      


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