Updated 1/20/12
Well it didn’t go for 10 million but did sell for $7.9 million. Read more at First edition Audubon book sells for $7.9 million
The Guardian reports that tomorrow a copy Audubon’s Birds of America will be sold at auction at Christie’s for possibly $10 million dollars. This would make it the most expensive book in history. There are only 120 complete sets of Audubon’s 435 hand-coloured, life-sized engravings of America’s birds in existence and 107 are owned by institutions. It is three feet in height and consists of four volumes of hand-colored life-sized engravings of birds.
Read more at the The Guardian World’s most expensive book, Birds of America, set to fetch $10m.
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I recently watched “Drawn from Nature” about Audubon. Very interesting. And what books he made. Worth every penny! 🙂
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By: John W. on January 21, 2012
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