Orang-utans at auction – 'Man of the Forest' emerges to makes two rare public appearances

Once believed by other inhabitants of the region to be people who hid in the forests so as to avoid being put to work or taken as slaves, orang-utans undertook a couple of significant auction outings as part of Sotheby's sale of the travel library of John and Suzanne Bonham.

 The curious engraved illustration of an orang-utan seen above may well have been based only on a ve…

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