Queen Adelaide’s Audubon
OFFERED by Christie’s New York on June 25 was a magnificent unbound set of the plates that make up Audubon’s great Birds of America (1827-38) that came from the library of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen in Thuringia.
Founded by Bernhard I in the late 17th century, this ducal library was opened to the public as early…