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Audubon Taking Flight at TEFAF Maastricht
TEFAF Maastricht will have John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-38). Priced at $12.5mn, this rare four-volume edition will be available through Daniel Crouch and Stéphane Clavreuil.
With 435 etched and coloured plates, showing 1,065 individual birds and representing 489 species, there are believed to be fewer than 200 existing copies of Audubon’s magnum opus.
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