Fine Books & Manuscripts at Bonhams New York in December
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Bonhams’ December 4, 2007 auction of Fine Books and Manuscripts will feature a first edition of John Fisk Allen’s Victoria Regia, or the Great Water Lily of America, believed to be the first book printed in the United States using color-printed lithographs.
Described as “an extraordinary achievement, worthy of this giant Amazonian water-lily,†the book was […]