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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dj gamaya" data-source="post: 11793402" data-attributes="member: 61857">"Birds of America", John James Audubon (The Birds of America, John James Audubon) <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fr7KrxC6MVI/TwRZWQNIKqI/AAAAAAAAqLg/0clpSM7CWt0/s1600/Expensive+Books+-+005.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> $ 8.8 million in 2000, the auction Christies ($ 11 million in current prices). Its first edition was printed in the United States in 1827-1838,  respectively, during this time it was released only about 200 copies  printed in giant format, which he called the Audubon «double elephant  folio »- each page has 50 inches (127 cm) in height. Full copy of" Birds  of America "includes 435 hand-painted prints of engravings size of 90  to 60 cm, on which birds are depicted life-size. It is now known about  the existence of 119 total copies of "Birds of America", 108 of them are  stored in museums around the world and only 11 - in private  collections. On the market these books come very rarely, and every such  case the collectors of books regard as a sensation. </blockquote>

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