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World's Most Expensive Book Comes Up For Sale

First Posted: 09/09/10 04:50 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:35 PM ET

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The Guardian:

One of the highlights is a copy of Birds of America valued at £4m to £6m. The book is bound on a huge scale -- a "double elephant" folio -- because Haiti-born Audubon wanted to paint the birds life size. He would travel across America, shooting the birds before carefully hanging them on bits of wire to paint them.

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CindyM272
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10:16 AM on 09/10/2010
Not that I'm trying TOO hard to sound like an enormous nerd, but Shakespeare didn't write books...
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mia8485
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07:08 PM on 09/10/2010
You might be interested in this...

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-first-folio.htm
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David Keith
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07:59 AM on 09/10/2010
I'm a book collector and a bird watcher. Birds of America coming up for auction gives me a chill down my spine. Would love to be at this auction. Audubon's work is perhaps the finest example of American arts. Wonderful and amazing work. It's going to set an auction record.
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KalNJ
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01:39 PM on 09/10/2010
I would love to have Fleming's copy of "Birds of the West Indies" by James Bond.
Now that's history :)

http://www.ManOfLaBook.com
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temenos
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06:27 PM on 09/09/2010
How I'd love to browse those Elizabethan letters!
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edejan
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05:12 PM on 09/09/2010
Nice to know that Audubon who contributed so much to the appreciation of the beauty of birds killed them and hung them up to paint them. Kind of takes the charm out of his work for me.
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