Other highlights from the sale will include:
- John Gould’s The Birds of New Guinea (estimate: £70,000-£100,000), his last major ornithological work and a companion to his monumental The Birds of Australia
- Daniel Elliot’s A Monograph of the Phasianidae (estimate: £50,000-£70,000), the most splendid of his great illustrated bird books
- Walter Cromer’s Book of Hours (estimate: £100,000-£150,000), written and owned by Henry VIII’s personal physician, once bound with the famous Aspremont Hours now in Melbourne
- a Book of Hours (estimate: £100,000-£150,000) painted c.1510 by Guillaume II Leroy, one of the most prolific and sought-after Lyonnais artists of his day, who worked for the courts of Louis XII and François I
Other lots include a group of medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts from the Collection of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994). As a renowned scholar of Latin and Greek, Gordan dedicated herself to the preservation of Classical texts and represented in the sale are those of Ovid, Cicero, Statius, Plato and Lucan. The highlight is an illustrated manuscript of English chronicler Ralph Higden’s medieval magnum opus, the Polychronicon (estimate: £50,000 – £70,000), previously in the Duke of Newcastle’s collections at Clumber Park.
