In advance of an auction by Sotheby's of an original edition of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," the Daily Gazette featured the College's edition, one of about 135 still in existence. Union's president, Eliphalet Nott, paid $1,000 in gold for the four-volume set of 435 life-size bird watercolors in 1844, one of the most elebrated books of the 19th century.
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