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World's most expensive printed book breaks auction record
Dec 7, 2010, 23:08 GMT
London - Birds of America, the world's most expensive illustrated book, was sold for a record price of 7.3 million pounds (11.5 million dollars) at auction in London Tuesday.
Sotheby's auction house 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 4 and 6 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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