A leaf from the 1655, first English translation of the ‘Fourth’ Book of Occult Philosophy of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, sold for £3800 at Lyon & Turnbull
The ‘Willow Grouse’ is one of 27 hand-coloured litho plates from a copy of Daniel Giraud Eliot’s Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of Grouse sold at £8000 in Edinburgh. The five original parts of this large folio work of 1854-65 were in the original green boards.