World's
most expensive printed book breaks auction record
Wednesday December 08, 2010 11:47:27 AM,
DPA
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London:
"Birds of America", the world's most expensive illustrated book,
has been sold for a record price of 7.3 million pounds ($11.5
million) at an auction in London.
Sotheby's auction house Tuesday said the price paid for the work
of celebrated ornithologist and painter John James Audubon was a
record for any printed book at auction.
It had been estimated to fetch between four and six million
pounds.
Audubon, a Haitian-born Frenchman who settled in North America,
lived from 1785 to 1851.
The book, from the collection of British aristocrat Lord Hesketh,
was bought by Michael Tollemache, a London dealer, a spokesman for
Sotheby's said.
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