Daily Archives: January 26, 2012

Lost Bird Project: One artist’s meeting with Audubon’s $8 million tome

When the gavel fell last week at the auction of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” the price for the rare first edition was almost $8 million—the third highest sum ever paid at auction for a book. But what a book! Its phenomenal size and heft simply doesn’t come through in photos, but the 435 [...]