James Sowerby’s British Mineralogy… and Exotic Mineralogy… studies were sold by Stockholm’s Auktionswerk at SwKr430,000 (£35,985).
An exceptional 11-lot group of the works of James Sowerby featured in a Swedish summer sale.
It included a record bid of SKr430,000 (£35,985) for a lot presenting the five large octavo volumes of his British Mineralogy of 1804-17 and the two volumes containing supplements on Exotic Mineralogy that followed over many years.