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THE MAGAZINE UPCOMING AUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL<br />
19 March<br />
Comte de Buffon…<br />
Fifty years after Sacheverell Sitwell declared it "one of the most important of all bird books from the Collector’s point of<br />
view", L'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux by Georges-Louis-Marie Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, remains as coveted as ever.<br />
A copy of this ornithological landmark published between 1770 and 1786 will go up for auction on 19 March at Stockholm<br />
Auktionsverk, where it is expected to fetch between SEK400,000 and 500,000. Collectors will also have the chance<br />
to bid for a copy of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables choisies, mises en vers with hand-coloured plates by the French<br />
engraver Cochin after the work of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (SEK600,000/800,000). The rarity of these plates leads the<br />
Swedish auction house to believe that this copy could have been owned by a prominent member of the court, or by<br />
the royal family itself. Polly Brock<br />
HD<br />
Jean de la Fontaine, after the work of<br />
Oudry, "Fables choisies, mises en vers." I-IV.<br />
Paris (published by Desaint, Saillant &<br />
Durand, printed by Charles-Antoine<br />
Jombert) 1755–59. 4 volumes.<br />
Estimate: SEK 600,000/800,000.