Billed as a ‘luminescent’ copy of one of the finer of all published florilegia, a copy of Jakob Christoph Trew’s Hortus nitidissimus… floribus is estimated at £70,000-90,000 at Sotheby’s on November 12.
Published in Nuremburg during the years 1750-86, this copy contains a total of 156 coloured plates of the most colourful and impressive flowers then grown in European gardens.