Audubon’s `Birds of America’ Fetches $7.9 Million at Christie’s
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A complete first edition of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” fetched $7.9 million at Christie’s today, just above the low presale estimate and far shy of a record.
A single telephone bid took the prize. The highest auction price paid for one of the first editions was $11.5 million in a 2010 sale at Sotheby’s.