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Friday, January 20, 2012

The Two-Way

Not A Record, But Audubon Set Still Sells For A Tidy $7.9 Million

One of the 400 engraved images in the Audubon set: a Common American Swan.

January 20, 2012 Christie's New York today auctioned off a rare set of John James Audubon's Birds of America. It didn't come close to the record $11.5 million paid for another full set of the books in 2010. But it was still a hefty price.

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