Ferns book makes first auction appearance
Offered as a part of the natural history section of a May 14 book sale at Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) is an extremely rare photobook on New Zealand ferns by Herbert Boucher Dobbie issued c.1880 – no copy of which, it seems, has previously been seen at auction.
Dobie produced three versions of his ‘blue books’ in Auckland in the years 1880-81, bringing them …