It's John James Audubon's Birds of America and it'll go for a tidy sum.
From a story in the Telegraph...
Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh, was from a family of collectors who liked to buy the rarest and most expensive items available across a variety of fields.
His copy of Birds of America is one of only 119 known copies, of which 108 belong to museums, libraries and universities.
Aubudon travelled across America to shoot the birds before hanging them with wire so that he could paint them on the enormous folio.
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