Birdlife books cause a flap in salerooms across the world
A Great Blue Heron as seen by John James Audubon proved the unexpected avian star in a $3m-plus sale featuring mostly natural history prints, maps and atlases held by US saleroom Graham Arader (22% buyer’s premium) on October 28.
Other Audubon prints included such popular subjects as the American Turkey, the very first plate i…