A rare copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, notes BBC News, billed as the world's most expensive book, has sold at auction.
From the piece...
Only 119 complete copies of the 19th-century book are known to exist, and 108 are owned by museums and libraries.
A separate edition of the book on ornithology sold for a record-breaking price of $8.8m (£5.7m) a decade ago.
It contains 1,000 life-sized illustrations of almost 500 breeds and took wildlife artist John James Audubon 12 years to complete.
The article also includes a short video.
The Wall Street Journal has a more extensive story on the auction, here.
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