Pierre-Joseph Redoute's Les Liliacees: New York, Wednesday November 20 1985
New York: Sotheby's, 1985. Hardbound. Green cloth boards with tipped on image and gold lettering, unpaginated; approx. 242pp, 486 color plates including one fold-out. Green cloth clamshell case. VG light edge-wear to clamshell case w/ bumped corners & scratches; split to top/corner board. speckled soiling to cover; foxing to inner lining. catalogue has bump to corner & instances of foxing to text-block; pgs clean & illustrations bright. Item #176248
Auction catalog; "The Empress Josephine's Copy with the Original Drawings and the Text on Vellum." Auction on November 20, 1985. Beautiful reproductions of Redoute's work. Auction estimate included.
Price: $40.00