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...A four-volume edition of John James Audubon’s celebrated Birds of America (1827-38) will be a notable rarity at this year’s Tefaf Maastricht fair, priced at $12.5mn, available through London-based rare books...
...Most of them — mechanised cotton spinning, James Watt’s steam engines — are now described by economists as “labour-augmenting”....
...(The other winners included the veteran American novelist James Salter, who is 87.) “I was so astonished and lucky to get it....
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