‘Tanysiptera Microryncha’, a member of the Kingfisher family, from the Gould & Sharpe Birds of New Guinea… sold for a record £82,000 at Bonhams.
One of the two coloured litho plates (of three) from Richard Owen’s 1863 study of the Madagascan Aye-Aye which sold at £950.
The Wassenaar Zoo in Den Haag opened its doors in 1937 and closed in 1985, but its wonderful library, essentially untouched since the 1970s, has only now come to auction in London.