Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Most Expensive Book in the World

A

rare copy of "the most expensive book in 

the world" Fah Franco-American

ornithologist John James Audubon and 

goes back to the nineteenth century

recorded on Tuesday evening in London, 

a new record price, Which

sold more than eight million euros, on the

 auction house said,

"Sotheby's". More images after the break...

The
sale of the book "Birds of America" 
(Birds of America) in exchange for
7.3 million pounds (8,6 million euros), 
a new world record price for the
printed work is sold at auction, it said, "Sotheby's".

The estimated book value of between
 four and six million pounds.

The new owner is a dealer old books.

And
return to the previous record price another 
version of "Birds of
America" were sold in New York in 2000 to 
meet with seven million euros.
There is no longer only about a hundred 
copies of the book "Birds of
America." Large book size (length of 
90 cm and of 60 cm) collected fees
birds such as flamingos and Swan.

Jean-Jacques
Audubon, known by his English John 
James Audubon, is the world of birds
and the world of physics was born in Haiti the 
year 1785, the French
colonial days of French and religion. 
And then received U.S.
citizenship.