1. A ‘Common Bee-Eater’, one of 34 hand-coloured litho plates from an 1884-96 first of Henry Eeles Dresser’s
…Meropidae, or Family of the Bee-Eaters, bound in contemporary half morocco, that sold at £8000 at Dominic Winter – equalling a record set at Sotheby’s some 10 years ago. It was bought online via
thesaleroom.com, as were the other two items featured above.