Histoire naturelle ... Règne Minéral
One of eight colour printed and hand-finished plates from the only known copy of a work that Fabien Gautier D’Agoty issued in 1777, apparently as a prospectus for his Histoire naturelle ... Règne Minéral.
An ex-Otto Schäfer lot, it fetched £9000 at Sotheby’s London in 1995. In the Freilich sale (Sotheby'…