World’s most expensive book to be auctioned for €7.25m

A RARE copy of the world’s most expensive book, a huge 19th century digest of birds painted to life-size, is to be auctioned for up to €7.25 million.

The volume of John James Audubon’s Birds Of America forms part of a collection of literary treasures which could fetch as much as €12m.

London auction house Sotheby’s will sell the works – including a 1623 collection of Shakespeare plays – which belonged to the late Lord Hesketh, in December.