Pierre-Joseph Redoute's Les Liliacees. The Empress Josephine's Copy with the Original Drawings and the Text on Vellum The Property of a Private Trust by [Sotheby's]

Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt-bordered botanical label, quarto, unpaginated (approximately 240 pages). Auction catalogue from the November 1985 sale, with 486 color illustrations, including one fold-out. Auction price estimates sheet laid in. Also laid in at rear is a brochure entitled "Pierre-Joseph Redoute's Les Roses Ten Original Watercolors on Vellum. Addendum to Sale 5396." This copy from the personal collection of G. S. Terence Cavanagh (1923-2005), late Professor Emeritus of Medical Literature at Duke University, author, & antiquarian bookseller. Cavanagh has clipped two articles relating to the auction from the New York Times and placed them in a Duke University Medical Center Library envelope, which is laid in with the estimate sheet. Spine and its gilt lettering faded, but overall Very Good and sound.