Sold for €60,000 (£51,960) as part of the botanical section of a Reiss & Sohn (18% buyer’s premium) series of auctions held from October 30-November 1 was an exceptional set of this five-volume work of 1829-34.
Handsomely bound in contemporary red half calf gilt, it was once part of the private library of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
The spines of this fine set and one of the 500 coloured litho plates, ‘Eremostachys moluccelloides’, are shown above.
