Audubon flies to new record for printed book at £6.5m
AT Sotheby's sale in New Bond Street on December 7, a copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America set a new auction record for any printed book when it sold to the London art dealer Michael Tollemache for £6.5m (plus premium).
After the sale, Tollemache described the early 19th century four-volume, double elephant folio work,…