The Quiz: One of the rarest and most expensive books features 435 prints of what?
Ballet dancers
Birds
Human body parts
Mountains
John James Audubon’s crowning achievement was the production of his early 1800s book “The Birds of America.” The work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of North American birds. The most valuable copies of the book are the so-called “double-elephant folios,” which are oversized four-volume sets containing all of Audubon’s paintings for the book. There are roughly 120 copies known in existence, most of which are owned by museums, though privately owned versions routinely approach $10 million in value.
The correct answer to this quiz is Birds.