Book sold for £1m over antiques valuation 'is most expensive tome in 2010'

A book that sold for more than £1 million over its antiques valuation has become the most expensive tome to be sold in 2010, it has been reported.

According to Luxist, John James Audubon's Birds of America, which sold at Sotheby's London for £7.3 million, topped the list and also became the most expensive printed book ever to go under the hammer.

It was purchased on December 7th by London dealer Michael Tollemache and he described the sale as "priceless".

What's more, it is believed there are only around 100 copies of this tome - which has more than 400 coloured prints in it - around today.

Earlier this week, it was revealed a nose job book from the 16th century fetched £11,000 when it was purchased by a plastic surgeon at Dominic Winter auction house in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

It is entitled De Curtorum Chirurgia Per Insitionem, which translates to Surgery of Defects by Implantation s.

Posted by Lisa Marriott