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Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders is an eclecticmix of unique items, pas-sions, events and bar-gains and the people wholove them. Our mission isto provide more exposureon a monthly basis for an-tique and collectibledealers in order to connectto consumers who want tofind those dealers. There’salways this unquench-able thirst to add to one’scollection and to find thatever elusive item, whetherit be a piece of period fur-niture, a doll, a tea pot,or a vintage piece of farmequipment. We just wantto connect folks so that ev-eryone can buy and sellthe things that we all love.
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Books - New Icon Representing WealthNo one disputes the fact that
due to our ever evolving hightechnology, the world is movingtowards a more paperless soci-ety. Yes, it might mean savingmore trees but on the other handthere a few other little unantici-pated problems that are inherentwith someone being totally‘plugged-in.’
Don’t sit there and tell me thatyou haven’t laughed out loud atthe popular commercial toutingyet a new all-in-one phone thatdoes it all and quicker. It is trulya very humorous tv ad showing afew people being totally oblivi-ous as to their surroundings andgoings-on. Me personally, I love
the clip showing a father roam-ing around a ball field in themiddle of his kid’s game.
I actually believe that bookswill always be around despite ourpush to end traditional printing.After all, there are multitudes ofbooks out there in the world be-fore we discovered computertechnology coupled with elec-tronic publishing software.
I remember a conversationmany years ago, just at the cuspof electronic desktop publishing.Someone older and much wiserthan me emphatically said thatbooks would become an icon ofthe very wealthy. My thought atthe time was, ‘wow, I cannot imag-
ine my life without printed booksthat I treasured or used frequentlyfor reference on various subjectsand issues.
I grew up measuring ‘wealth’by the number and the type ofbooks one had in their own per-sonal library. In my personal li-brary over the decades, someonecould pick up an antique refer-ence guide, a copy of Edgar AllanPoe’s poems, the autobiographyof Jim Corbett, an Englishmanliving in India who was a famous
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LONDON – It’s quite a nestegg. John James Audubon’s“Birds of America,” a rare blendof art, natural history andcraftsmanship, fetched morethan $10 million at auction onTuesday, making it the world’smost expensive published book.
With its 435 hand-coloredillustrations of birds drawn tosize, the volume is one of the bestpreserved editions of Audubon’s19th-century masterpiece. Thesale at Sotheby’s auction househad been anticipated for monthsby wealthy collectors.
The book sold for$10,270,000 (6.5 millionpounds) to an anonymouscollector bidding by telephone,
Audubon’s “Birds of America”
Fetches $10 MillionGREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Gregory Katz, AP – Tue Dec 7, 2010
the auction house said.Because each picture is so
valuable, there have been fearsthe volume will be broken up andsold as separate works of art.However, experts believe that’sunlikely. The tome is probablymore valuable intact. Andcollectors hold Audubon in suchreverence that the notion ofripping apart a perfect copy wouldbe akin to sacrilege.
“Audubon’s ‘Birds’ holds aspecial place in the rare bookmarket,” said Heather O’Donnell,a specialist with Bauman RareBooks in New York. “The book isa major original contribution tothe study of natural history in theNew World.”
“It’ s also oneof the mostvisually stunningbooks in thehistory of print:The scale of theimages, theoriginality ofe a c hcomposition, thebrilliance of thehand coloring.”
Then there’sthe wow factor.
“No one can rival John JamesAudubon for frontier glamour,”O’Donnell said. “The story of hislonely journey through theAmerican wilderness and hisstruggle to record what he sawthere gives the ‘Birds’ aresonance that no other book canmatch.”
Part naturalist and part artist,Audubon possessed an unequaledability to observe, catalog andpaint the birds he observed in thewild. Experts say his book,originally published in 1827, isunmatched in its beauty and isalso of considerable scientific
hunter turned maneating tigerhunter, or some obscure tradi-tional martial arts book that wastranslated to English.
Oh yes, an astute person canactually tell quite a bit about aperson just from browsing theirbookshelves.
Now, the equivalent is what arethe favorite bookmarkedwebsites on people’s computersand phones.
Just know that there is a wholebreed of people who have grownfond of their books, whetherbrand spanking new novels or rareantique books.
And we can’t let the opportu-nity slip by without pitching aperfect Holiday Gift for thatsomeone who is hard to buy for.Consider what that person likesor enjoys, then find a bookthey’ll love on the subject.
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Pom Harrington, owner of thePeter Harrington rare book firmin London, said it has been 10years since the last completeedition of “Birds of America”was auctioned, going for a then-record $8.8 million.
He said it is unusual to find acopy not in a museum ora c a d e m i cinstitution.
“If you want tobuy an example ofa rare work of art,this is one of thebest,” he said. “Itis valuable in itsartistic naturebecause it is sowell drawn.”
He said otherhistoric books —such as anexcellent exampleof a GutenbergBible — would
likely be valued even higher ifthey came up for sale.
Harrington estimated that acomplete Gutenberg Bible ingood condition would probablysell for between $30 million and$50 million, but none has beensold in more than 30 years. Inrecent years, he said, a completeFirst Folio of Shakespeare’sworks sold at auction for about$5.6 million while a Chaucer
c o l l e c t i o nsold for morethan $4million.
“ T h a t ’ sgetting closeto Audubon,”he said.
While theA u d u b o nvolume holdsthe record fora publishedbook, a 72-page notebookof Leonardoda Vinci’ s
handwritten notes andillustrations went for even more.Known as the Leicester Codex,the collection was bought by BillGates in 1994 for $31 million.
Also on the block Tuesday wasa Shakespeare First Folio from1623 that fetched $2.05 million(1.3 million pounds).
Sotheby’s books expert DavidGoldthorpe said the Audubon andShakespeare volumes represent“the twin peaks of bookcollecting.” Both came from theestate of the 2nd Baron Hesketh,a collector who died in 1955.
The “Birds of America” plateswere printed in black and whiteand then hand-colored by “thebest artists of the time,”Harrington said. The collection,made from engravings ofAudubon’s watercolors,measures more than 3 feet by 2feet (90 centimeters by 60centimeters) because Audubonwanted to paint the birds life size.
The size of the illustrationsmakes them extremely valuableas stand-alone pieces of art,leaving the complete editionvulnerable to being broken up sothe prints can be sold one by one.Harrington said the wild turkeydepicted in the first big plate ofthe book can be sold for$200,000.
But Mark Ghahramani, a rarebook specialist at ClassicBindings in London, said it isunlikely this “Birds of America”will be divided up.
“There are very few copies leftof the entire book, so I wouldthink that whoever bought it at theauction would be quite interestedin keeping it whole,” he said.“Anything to do with American
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Audobon Book Auctioncont. next pgPortrait of John James Audobon
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natural history is quite valuable.”Audubon, who died in 1851,
represents a unique figure inAmerican history — aRenaissance man with shades ofHuckleberry Finn.Like Mark Twain’sfictional character,Audubon made anepic voyage downthe mightyMississippi — butwith a scientist’sinquisitive nature.
Taking alongonly a rifle, anassistant and adrawing pad, hemade illustrationsof as many birds ashe could find.
He did not find aprinter in theUnited Stateswilling to take onthe book with itsoversize illustrations, so he
sailed to Britain, eventuallyfinding printers in London and inEdinburgh, Scotland.
The volume is seen as a vitalpiece of American history,
H a r r i n g t o nsaid.
“It is themost importantnatural historybook forAmerica,” hesaid. “That isthe main point.It screamsAmericana. Foran Americanpatriot, it is thegreatest bookon Americanheritage. Thereis nocompetition.”
___G i l l i a n
S m i t hcontributed to this report.
One of our favorites fromAudobon’s collection.
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