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The John Golden Library: Book Illustration in the Age of Scientific Discovery
10 November - 22 November 2022 • New York
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1. Audubon, John James | An original subscriber's copy preserving the wrappers, and with an important provenance

2. Audubon, John James, and James Bachman | A magnificent copy of the "largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America"

3. Bartram, William | “It is written in the spirit of the old travellers.” — Coleridge

4. Bigelow, Jacob | The first American book with color printing

5. Blackwell, Elizabeth | A subscriber's copy of the expanded German edition of the first herbal illustrated by a woman

6. Bolton, James | An exquisite work of original watercolors of ferns

7. Bonafous, Matthieu | The most authoritative reference on the cultivation of corn

8. Buchoz, Pierre Joseph | The Great Garden of the Universe

9. Bury, Priscilla Susan (Falkner) | A splendid and rare botanical work by a woman artist, with distinguished provenance

10. Catesby, Mark | The "most famous colorplate book of American plant and animal life ..."

11. Catesby, Mark | Catesby's collection of "Curious Trees and Shrubs"

12. Cellarius, Andreas | An outstanding example of atlas production from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography

13. Cook, James, Captain, et al. | The Frank S. Streeter set of the voyages that "form the basis for any collection of Pacific books"

14. Curtis, William | His monumental work on London's flora

15. Dodart, Dionys | "one of the great books in the history of botanical illustration"

16. Donovan, Edward | The first of its kind to deal with India's entomology

17. Donovan, Edwards | First edition of a rare catalog of South Seas insects

18. Doughty, John and Thomas Doughty | The Laird U. Park, Jr. copy of "the first colored-plate sporting book printed in America"
![Duppa, R[ichard] | The Plesch-de Belder copy of this exceedingly rare work](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/49aca0e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1592x2000+0+0/resize/150x188!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F61%2F68%2F2f46b0cc4c89a5c8a090c8f2b70a%2F012n11113-cf3jk-t2-03.jpg)
19. Duppa, R[ichard] | The Plesch-de Belder copy of this exceedingly rare work

20. Elliot, Daniel Giraud | "the same rank as Audubon and Edward Lear as a bird-painter"

21. Goos, Pieter | The most aesthetically pleasing of the early Dutch sea-atlases

22. Hughes, Griffith | One of the most important early botanical treatises on Barbados

23. Jefferys, Thomas | "One of the most authoritative and comprehensive atlases of America"

24. Jefferys, Thomas | The rare Neptune Occidental

25. Jefferys, Thomas | The Pierre S. duPont III-Sax copy of the North American Pilot

26. Knapp, Samuel L. | The Jacques Levy copy of this rare work

27. Knorr, Georg Wolfgang | Nearly one thousand shells depicted on 190 plates

28. Lambert, Aylmer Bourke | The Mackenzie-Horticultural Society of New York-de Belder-Von Hoffmann copy; one of twenty-five handcolored copies

29. Long, John | "the most valuable record of Indian life and the fur trade of the period"
![Loudon, [Jane Wells] | A handsomely bound set of renewed works](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/58ce9ca/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1583x2000+0+0/resize/150x190!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F00%2F78%2Fca5be50e4a00bc31279bf80dc82e%2Fn11113-cf3k8-t2-03.jpg)
30. Loudon, [Jane Wells] | A handsomely bound set of renewed works

31. Martyn, John | The Rous-Fitzwilliam-Hesketh copy of the first botanical book to be illustrated with color-printed plates

32. Martyn, Thomas | Exquisite depictions of shells collected during Captain Cook's three voyages

33. McKenney, Thomas L. and James Hall | An exceptional copy of one of the great color plate books of nineteenth-century America

34. Merian, Maria Sibylla | The rare de-luxe issue of Der Rupsen Begin

35. Merian, Maria Sibylla | Merian's classic study on tropical insects

36. Michaux, André | A groundbreaking monograph on American oaks, the Arpad Plesch copy

37. Michaux, François-André | The first Illustrated Sylva of North America

38. Miller, Philip | The illustrated supplement to Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, with distinguished provenance

39. Mount, William, and Thomas Page | "The Courses and Distances from one Place to Another..." — The Navigator's Bible
![[Pennant, Thomas] | An extra-illustrated copy of the British Zoology, complete with the supplementary plates](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/71c549c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1511x2000+0+0/resize/150x199!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F64%2F1f%2F80c8aca64c16806e9ff6ce595dac%2F002n11113-cf3kv-t1-07.jpg)
40. [Pennant, Thomas] | An extra-illustrated copy of the British Zoology, complete with the supplementary plates
![[Pennant, Thomas] | One of the earliest English attempts to portray Indian avifauna](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3a39677/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1534x2000+0+0/resize/150x196!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F59%2Ff2%2F6095a4c04a1ca6f811dcd6c0cb89%2F014n11113-cf3kw-t2-05.jpg)
41. [Pennant, Thomas] | One of the earliest English attempts to portray Indian avifauna

42. Redouté, Pierre-Joseph | "But would a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?"

43. Regenfuss, Franz Michael | The most sumptuous illustrated conchological book ever published, with plates colored by the artist's wife

44. Schröter, Johann Samuel | The conchological portion of the celebrated Gottwald cabinet

45. Spaendonck, Gerard Van | "magnificent drawings, brilliantly interpreted in stipple"

46. Thornton, Robert John | The Age of Romanticism fully blooms

47. Trew, Cristoph Jakob — Benedict Christian Vogel | The finest botanical work ever printed in Germany

48. Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian zu, Prince — Karl Bodmer | The greatest illustrated American travel narrative