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