Rare book of birds expected to sell for £6m
The volume of John James Audubon's Birds Of America forms part of a collection of literary treasures which could fetch as much as 10m.
London auction house Sotheby's will sell the works - including a 1623 collection of Shakespeare plays – which belonged to the late Lord Hesketh, in December.
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Hide AdAnother copy of Audubon's book set a world record price at auction a decade ago. The latest copy has an estimated value of between 4m and 6m.
Only 119 copies of naturalist and artist Audubon's book are known to survive, with just a handful owned privately.
He would shoot the birds during his travels and then paint them to full scale.