World's most expensive book comes up for sale
Sotheby's to auction Audubon's Birds of America and Shakespeare's First Folio from estate of late Lord Hesketh
By any standards they form part of a truly extraordinary library: a rare copy of the world's most expensive book, perhaps the most important book in English literature, a fascinating cache of letters from Elizabeth I to the jailor of Mary Queen of Scots, and more besides.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 9 September, 2010
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