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Audubon's Birds of America fetches £7.3m at auction
The world's most expensive book, a copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, has sold at auction for just over £7.3m.
Only 119 complete copies of the 19th Century book are known to exist, with 108 owned by museums and libraries.
Will Gompertz reports.
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