List of most expensive books and manuscripts explained

This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel, to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The earliest printed book in the list is a Southern Song annotated woodblock edition of the Book of Tang printed c. 1234. The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978.

The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list. Other books featured multiple times on the list are the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays with five separate copies and five separate broadside printings of the United States Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg Bible and The North American Indian with four separate copies each, three copies of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, two printings each of the Emancipation proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, two illustrated folios from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, two copies of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Hortus Eystettensis, Geographia Cosmographia and William Caxton's English translation of Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye have also been repeatedly sold. Abraham Lincoln and Isaac Newton are the most featured authors, with three separate works, while Albert Einstein, Martin Waldseemüller, George Washington, André Breton, Robert Schumann, and Charlotte Brontë have two separate works each.

Table of book sales

Price (US$ millions)Title and descriptionAuthorYearPurchaserDate of saleImageRef(s)
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$$30.80Codex LeicesterNotebook comprising a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, in his own hand.Previously owned by Giuseppe Ghezzi, Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Armand Hammer.Leonardo da Vincidata-sort-value="1500"1500sBill Gatesdata-sort-value="1994-11" November 1994[1]
$$43.2United States ConstitutionFirst printing. Previously owned by S. Howard Goldman.Founding Fathers of the United States at the Constitutional Convention1787Kenneth C. Griffindata-sort-value="2021-11" November 2021[2]
$$38.2Letters from Zhao Mengfu to his friend Guo TianxiTwo letters, sold as a set from Yuan dynasty artist Zhao Mengfu to his friendZhao Mengfu1254–1322data-sort-value="2019-11" November 2019[3] [4]
$$35Book of MormonPrinter's manuscript. Copy of original manuscript produced by Oliver Cowdery. Originally owned by David Whitmer.1830The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsdata-sort-value="2017-09" September 2017[5] [6]
$$31.7Letter from Zeng Gong to his friend (júshì tiè 局事帖)Believed to be the only surviving original work by the Song dynasty scholar; written on the back of a sheet of paper used for woodblock printing. Previously owned by Xiang Yuanbian (1525–1590).Zeng Gongdata-sort-value="1080"Wang Zhongjundata-sort-value="2016-05-16" May 2016[7] [8]
$38.1$38.1 Codex Sassoon 1053 A copy of the Hebrew Bible that is contemporary to the Aleppo Codex, and is almost complete and a century older than the Leningrad Codex–data-sort-value="899"late 9th centuryAlfred H. Moses for ANU - Museum of the Jewish PeopleMay 2023[9]
$$21.21 Sherborne MissalIlluminated missal in use at Sherborne Abbey. Chiefly illuminated by John Siferwas.Previously owned by Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland.–data-sort-value="1400"Early 15th centuryThe British Librarydata-sort-value="2001-06" June 2001[10]
$$11.70Gospels of Henry the LionIlluminated gospel book commissioned by Henry the Lion (1129/1131–1195) for use in Brunswick Cathedral.1175The German government with support from private donors; now held at the Herzog August Librarydata-sort-value="1983-12" December 1983[11]
$$21.32 Magna Carta1297 exemplification of the 1216 charter, held by the Brudenell family and later the Perot Foundation.–1297David Rubensteindata-sort-value="2007-12-18" December 2007[12] [13]
$$17.06 "Book of Tang in detailed sections with glosses by 'Stone Wall Studio'". Woodblock printed edition. Copy previously owned by Cao Kun (1862–1938).Ouyang Xiu (comp.)
Chén Jiàn 陳鑒 (ed.)		data-sort-value="1234"c. 1230sdata-sort-value="2018-06-20" June 2018[14] [15]
$$14.34 St Cuthbert GospelPocket gospel book that was buried with Saint Cuthbert (d. 687), removed from his coffin in 1104 and kept at Durham Cathedral.Subsequently owned by Thomas Allen and the English Jesuit College.–data-sort-value="0730"c.710–730The British Librarydata-sort-value="2012-04" April 2012[16] [17]
$$14.20Bay Psalm BookFirst book printed in what is now the United States.Originally owned by the Old South Church.–1640David Rubensteindata-sort-value="2013-11" November 2013[18] [19]
$$13.60 Rothschild PrayerbookAn illuminated book of hours once in the collections of Anselm Salomon von Rothschild (1803–1874) and his descendants.–data-sort-value="1510"c. 1505–1510Kerry Stokesdata-sort-value="2014-01-29" January 2014[20]
$$13.20Einstein-Besso manuscript54-page manuscript written jointly by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso. One of only two surviving manuscripts documenting the genesis of general relativity., data-sort-value="1913"c. 1912–13data-sort-value="2021-11-23" November 2021[21]
$$12.15 Illustrated folio from the Shahnameh of Shah TahmaspFrom the illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic poem presented by Tahmasp to Selim II. Illustration attributed to Aqa Mirak.Previously owned by Edmond de Rothschild and Arthur A. Houghton Jr.data-sort-value="1535"c.1525–1535data-sort-value="2011-04-06" April 2011[22]
$$11.57 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by Henry Witham (1779–1844).data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838London art dealer, Michael Tollemachedata-sort-value="2010-12-07" December 2010[23] [24]
$$10.00Waldseemüller map Only surviving copy of the first map to use the name "America" and showing that the Americas were separated from Asia by the Pacific Ocean.1507The Library of Congressdata-sort-value="2003-06" June 2003[25]
$$9.98 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & TragediesFirst Folio edition with autograph letter of authentication by Edmond Malone (1741–1812). Previously owned by Mills College.1623Stephan Loewentheildata-sort-value="2020-10-14" October 2020[26] [27]
$$9.83 Acts of Congress George Washington's personal copy of a printed edition of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, with annotations in his own hand.–1789Mount Vernon Ladies' Associationdata-sort-value="2012-06-22" June 2012[28]
$$9.65 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by the 4th Duke of Portland (1768–1854).data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838an anonymous buyerdata-sort-value="2018-06-14" June 2018[29] [30]
$$9.32 Babylonian Talmud One of 14 complete sets printed by Daniel Bomberg that are known to exist.Previously owned by Richard Bruerne, Westminster Abbey and the Valmadonna Trust Library.–data-sort-value="1523"1519–1523Stephan Loewentheildata-sort-value="2015-12-22" December 2015[31] [32]
$$9.19 Yongle Encyclopedia Two volumes (comprising chapters 2268–2269 and 7391–7392) of the manuscript copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia produced between 1562 and 1567 for the Jiajing Emperor. The original copy produced between 1403 and 1408 is now lost, and only about 400 of the 11,095 volumes of the 16th-century copy now survive. These two previously unrecorded volumes in private ownership in France were bought.[33] –data-sort-value="1567"1567a Chinese collector from Zhejiang called Jīn Liàng 金亮data-sort-value="2020-07-07" July 2020[34]
$$9.06Histoire de ma vieAutograph manuscript, including pages that at the time had never been published.Giacomo Casanova1789Bibliothèque nationale de Francedata-sort-value="2010-02-20" February 2010[35]
$$8.80 The Olympic ManifestoPierre de Coubertin's 14-page autograph manuscript for his 1892 speech outlining his vision for a modern revival of the ancient Olympic Games.1892Alisher Usmanov for the Olympic Museumdata-sort-value="2019-12-18" December 2019[36] [37]
$$8.80 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by George Lane Fox (1793–1848) and subsequently by John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Butedata-sort-value="1838"1827–1838data-sort-value="2000-03-10" March 2000[38] [39]
$$8.76 QuranManuscript of the Quran written on coloured Chinese (Ming dynasty) paper speckled with gold flecks; produced under the Aq Qoyunlu Confederation (1378–1501) or the Timurid Empire (1370–1507).–data-sort-value="1450"15th centurydata-sort-value="2020-06-25" June 2020[40]
$$8.31Luzzatto High Holiday MahzorIlluminated Ashkenazi Jewish prayer book previously owned by Samuel David Luzzatto and the Alliance Israélite Universelle–data-sort-value="1300Late 13th or early 14th centurydata-sort-value="2021-10-19" October 2021[41]
$$8.14United States Declaration of IndependenceDunlap broadside #23. et al.1776a consortium of buyers including Norman Leardata-sort-value="2000-06-29" June 2000[42]
$$7.57 The Canterbury TalesFirst edition printed by William Caxton in 1477. Copy originally owned by John Radcliffe, then purchased by 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748–1833) in 1776 for £6.1477Maggs Brosdata-sort-value="1998-07-08" July 1998[43] [44]
$$7.00The 120 Days of SodomOriginal manuscript. Previously owned by Charles de Noailles. Purchased by Gérard Lhéritier for the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits. Later declared a French national treasure and removed from auction after Lhéritier's arrest for fraud.Marquis de Sade1785data-sort-value="2014-04-02" April 2014[45] [46]
$$6.64 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society until 1946, and in possession of the Deerfield Academy from 1973 to 1985.data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838data-sort-value="2019-12-19" December 2019[47]
$$6.33 Illustrated folio from the Shahnameh of Shah TahmaspFrom the illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic poem presented by Tahmasp to Selim II. Illustration attributed to Aqa Mirak.Previously owned by Edmond de Rothschild and Arthur A. Houghton Jr.data-sort-value="1535"c.1525–1535data-sort-value="2022-03-31" March 2022[48]
$$6.20 The Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle EastIlluminated chivalric romance on vellum originally owned by Louis de Gruuthuse and subsequently by Louis XII of France and William Cavendish–1464data-sort-value="2012-12-05" December 2012[49]
$$6.17 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & TragediesThird issue of the First Folio edition. Copy from the Library of Abel E. Berland; originally owned by Allen Puleston, then by the Dryden baronets of Canons Ashby.1623Paul Allendata-sort-value="2001-10-09" October 2001[50] [51]
$$6.06 Letter from Francis Crick to his sonLetter explaining "the secret of life" written more than a month before the public announcement of the discovery of DNAdata-sort-value="1953"1953data-sort-value="2013-03-10" April 2013[52]
$6.0$6.0Action Comics #1First appearance of Superman and Joe Shuster1938data-sort-value="2014-08" April 2024[53]
$5.3$5.3Superman #1First issue of the first Superman comic book series, owned by Tony ArnoldJerry Siegel andJoe Shuster1939January 2022[54]
$$5.80 Northumberland BestiaryPreviously owned by the Dukes of Northumberland.Purchased by an anonymous buyer; resold in June 2007 for an unknown amount to the J. Paul Getty Museum.–data-sort-value="1260"c. 1250–1260an anonymous buyerdata-sort-value="1990-11" November 1990[55]
$$5.68 Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)Autograph manuscript by the composer. Given by Alma Mahler to Willem Mengelberg. Later owned by Gilbert Kaplan.data-sort-value="1894"1894data-sort-value="2016-12-29" November 2016[56]
$$5.62 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy owned by the Providence Athenaeum.data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838data-sort-value="2005-12-15" December 2005[57]
$$5.50Les LiliacéesCopy owned by Empress Joséphine (1763–1814)1802data-sort-value="1985-11" November 1985[58]
$$5.39Gutenberg BibleCopy owned by Carrie Estelle Doheny (1875–1958), then donated to St. John's Seminary in California.Purchased by Japanese booksellers Maruzen; resold to Keio University in 1996 for an undisclosed sum.–data-sort-value="1455"1450–1455Japanese booksellers Maruzendata-sort-value="1987-10" October 1987[59]
$$5.17 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & TragediesThird issue of the First Folio edition. Copy originally owned by William Bates (1625–1699), then acquired by Daniel Williams (c. 1643–1716) in 1699, and held at Dr Williams's Library in London from 1716 until the sale in 2006.1623London dealer, Simon Finch Rare Booksdata-sort-value="2006-07-13" July 2006[60]
$$4.86 QuranRoyal Mamluk Quran written for Sultan Qaitbay (1418–1496). Later owned by Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962).–1489data-sort-value="2019-05-02" May 2019[61]
$$4.59 Burdett PsalterAn illuminated psalter made for Jean de Villiers, who was 22nd Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1285 until 1293.–data-sort-value="1293"13th centuryan anonymous private collectordata-sort-value="1998-06-23" June 1998[62]
$$4.47 Traité des Arbres FruitiersThis copy painted between 1804 and 18091768data-sort-value="2006-12" December 2006[63]
$$4.45 Cornaro MissalAn illuminated missal owned by Cardinal Marco Cornaro (1482–1524) and subsequently by Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild (1836–1905)–1503data-sort-value="1999-07-08" July 1999[64]
$$4.42United States Declaration of IndependenceOfficial William J. Stone copy of the Declaration of Independence presented in 1824 to signer Charles Carroll of CarrolltonThomas Jefferson et al.1824data-sort-value="2021-07-01" July 2021[65]
$$4.34Nine SymphoniesAutograph manuscript by the composer of symphonies 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.1770san anonymous buyer who gave it to the Pierpont Morgan Library on permanent loandata-sort-value="1987-05" May 1987[66] [67]
$$4.34 Rules of basketballTypewritten first draft of the rules by James Naismith.1892David Booth, and given to The University of Kansas on permanent loandata-sort-value="2010-12-10" December 2010[68] [69]
$$4.17 Hours of Albrecht of BrandenburgBook of Hours painted by Simon Bening for Albrecht of Brandenburg–data-sort-value="1523"1522–23data-sort-value="2001-06-19" June 2001[70]
$$4.07 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by the University of Edinburgh.data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838data-sort-value="1992-04-24" April 1992[71]
$$3.97 The Tales of Beedle the BardOne of seven copies handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling.data-sort-value="2007"2007Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox on behalf of Amazondata-sort-value="2007-12-13" December 2007[72]
$$3.96 Geographia CosmographiaCopy originally owned by Hieronymus Münzer (1437/47–1508).1477Bernard Shapero on behalf of a private collectordata-sort-value="2006-10-10" October 2006[73] [74]
$3.92$3.92Letter from Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand and IsabellaPrinted edition of Letter from Columbus describing his visit to the Americas1493data-sort-value="2023-10-19 October 2023[75]
$$3.86 TorahEditio princeps of the Pentateuch in Hebrew, with paraphrases in Aramaic, printed in Bologna.–data-sort-value="1482"1482an anonymous buyerdata-sort-value="2014-04-30" April 2014[76] [77]
$$3.78Emancipation ProclamationOne of 27 surviving copies of the Leland-Boker "Authorized Edition" printed by Frederick Leypoldt to benefit the Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission. Copy owned by Robert F. Kennedydata-sort-value="1863"1863data-sort-value="2010-12-10" December 2010[78]
$$3.77 Rochefoucauld GrailThree volume illuminated manuscript containing the Lancelot-Grail cycle. Originally owned by Guy VII de La Rochefoucauld. Subsequently owned by Thomas Phillipps and Joost Ritman.–data-sort-value="1315"c. 1315–1323data-sort-value="2010-12-07" December 2010[79]
$$3.72 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia MathematicaAssociation copy of the first edition1687data-sort-value="2016-12-14" December 2016[80]
$$3.63Book of HoursIlluminated Book of hours on vellum. Previously owned by Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, Henry Yates Thompson, Charles Fairfax Murray, and Alfred Chester Beatty.Master of the Paris Bartholomeus Anglicusdata-sort-value="1445"1440sdata-sort-value="2021-04-23" April 2021[81]
$$3.61 Hebrew BibleVellum manuscript produced in England, comprising the Pentateuch, Haftarah and the Five Megillot. Previously part of the Valmadonna Trust Library.–1189The Green Collection and donated to the Museum of the Bibledata-sort-value="2015-12-22" December 2015[82] [83]
$$3.53 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by York Subscription Library and subsequently by the Indiana Historical Society.data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838data-sort-value="2014-04-01" April 2014[84]
$$3.49 Symphony No. 9 (Choral)Copyist's manuscript with annotations by the composer.data-sort-value="1824"1824an anonymous private collectordata-sort-value="2003-05" May 2003[85]
$$3.40Letter from Abraham Lincoln responding to "Little People's Petition"Response from Lincoln to "Children's Petition to the President asking him to free all the little slave children in this country."data-sort-value="1864"data-sort-value="2008-04-03" April 2008[86]
$$3.33 Prelude, Fugue and Allegro for lute or keyboard in E flat major (BWV 998)Autograph manuscript signed by Bach.Originally owned by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and subsequently by Breitkopf and Alfred Henry Huthdata-sort-value="1740"c. 1735–1740data-sort-value="2016-07-13" July 2016[87]
$$3.22 Letter from George Washington to Bushrod WashingtonLetter from Washington to his nephew arguing in support of the adoption of the proposed U.S. Constitution1787data-sort-value="2009-12" December 2009[88] [89]
$$3.11 The Gospels of Queen TheutbergaIlluminated gospel book, probably produced at the Benedictine abbey at Metz for a member of the Carolingian dynasty, perhaps Queen Theutberga.Previously owned by Guglielmo Libri and William Tite.–data-sort-value="850"c.825–850data-sort-value="2015-07-15" July 2015[90]
$$3.09 Last Address as PresidentAutograph manuscript of Lincoln's final speech.Previously owned by Joan Whitney Payson.data-sort-value="1865"1865data-sort-value="2002-03-27" March 2002[91]
$$3.03 DuneStoryboard for an unproduced film based on the 1965 science fiction novel Dune by Frank HerbertAlejandro Jodorowsky, Jean Giraud, et al.data-sort-value="1975"January 2022[92]
$$3.03 Monypenny BreviaryIlluminated breviary originally owned by William Monypenny. –data-sort-value="1490"Pierre Beresdata-sort-value="1989-07" July 1989[93]
$$2.97 Surrealist ManifestoAutograph Manuscript owned by Simone Collinet. Purchased by Gérard Lhéritier for the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits. Later declared a French national treasure and removed from auction after Lhéritier's arrest for fraud.1924data-sort-value="2008-05" May 2008[94]
$$2.89 "God" letterLetter written by Einstein to his friend Eric Gutkind explaining his religious beliefs1954data-sort-value="2018-12-04" December 2018[95]
$$2.88 The North American Indian, being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and AlaskaLimited edition copy on Japan vellum signed by Curtisdata-sort-value="1907"1907–1930data-sort-value="2012-04-10" April 2012[96]
$$2.8Das Große StammbuchAn album amicorum (book of friendship) comprising paintings and drawing by many different artists, collected by Philipp Hainhofer between 1596 and 1633.–data-sort-value="1633"1596–1633The Herzog August Librarydata-sort-value="2020-08-27" August 2020[97]
$$2.77 Portolan Atlasdata-sort-value="1546"1542–46data-sort-value="2012-04-10" April 2012[98]
$$2.75 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & TragediesThird issue of the First Folio edition. Copy originally owned by Robert Edwards, then by George Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1751–1804).1623a private collector in the USdata-sort-value="2016-05-25" May 2016[99] [100]
$$2.70Psalter and Hours of Elizabeth de BohunIlluminated manuscript originally owned by Elizabeth de Bohun. Subsequently purchased for an unknown amount.–data-sort-value="1350"14th centuryThe Green Collection and donated to the Museum of the Bibledata-sort-value="1988" 1988[101] [102]
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$$2.57 Imhof PrayerbookIlluminated by Simon Bening. Earliest dated work by Bening–data-sort-value="1511"1511data-sort-value="2011-07-06" July 2011[104]
$$2.56 Doria AtlasComposite atlas comprising a mixture of manuscript and printed maps dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries; commissioned by Giovanni Andrea Doria (1539–1606).–data-sort-value="1620"1570–1620Bernard Shaperodata-sort-value="2005-10-18" October 2005[105]
$$2.55 Hortus EystettensisDeluxe coloured copy of the first edition.Originally owned by Giovanni Faber.1613data-sort-value="2016-07-13" July 2016[106]
$$2.52 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia MathematicaPresentation copy of the first edition given to James II by Newton1687data-sort-value="2013-12-06" December 2013[107]
$$2.50The First Book of UrizenOne of eight surviving copies of the original hand-printed, colour-illustrated book. Copy owned by John Hay Whitney (1904–1982).1794a private collectordata-sort-value="1999-04" April 1999[108]
$$2.50On the RoadOriginal scroll.1951Jim Irsaydata-sort-value="2001-05-22" May 2001[109]
$$2.48Quran leaf palimpsestOne of the earliest quranic manuscripts known–data-sort-value="650"Mid 7th centurydata-sort-value="2008-04" April 2008[110]
$$2.42Biblia pauperum (The Gotha-Doheny Copy)–data-sort-value="1470"1460–1470data-sort-value="1987-10" October 1987[111]
$$2.41Thirteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionCopy signed by Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) and various members of Congress. One of 3 "Senate" copies of vellum.Previously owned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.–1864data-sort-value="2016-05-25" May 2016[112]
$$2.40Gutenberg BibleCopy owned by the Pforzheimer Foundation.–data-sort-value="1455"1450–1455The Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austindata-sort-value="1978" 1978[113]
$$2.40 De libris revolutionum eruditissimi viri...Doctoris Nicolai Copernici… Narratio primaFirst Edition of the first account of Copernicus's heliocentrismdata-sort-value="1540"1540data-sort-value="2016-07-13" July 2016[114]
$$2.40 MachzorFlorentine illuminated manuscript on vellum–data-sort-value="1495"1490sdata-sort-value="2012-05-11" May 2011[115]
$$2.36 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies (First Folio)Third issue of the First Folio edition. Copy owned by Lord Hesketh (1916–1955).1623data-sort-value="2010-12-07" December 2010[116]
$$2.34 QuranSigned Yahya Bin Muhammad Inn 'Umar, Probably Mesopotamia.Previously owned by Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955) and the Hispanic Society of America–data-sort-value="1203"1203data-sort-value="2007-10-23" October 2007[117]
$$2.30Symphony No. 2Autograph manuscript by the composer.data-sort-value="1847"1846–47Robin Lehmandata-sort-value="1994-12-01" December 1994[118]
$$2.21 De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumFirst edition printed in Nuremberg by Johann Petreius in 1543. Copy originally owned by (1643–1721) and subsequently by Myron Prinzmetal (1908–1987).1543data-sort-value="2008-06-17" June 2008[119]
$$2.20 Archimedes PalimpsestPalimpsest manuscript of On the Equilibrium of Planes, On Floating Bodies, The Method of Mechanical Theorems, On Spiral Lines, On the Sphere and the Cylinder, On the Measurement of the Circle, and Stomachion.Archimedesdata-sort-value="999"late 10th centurydata-sort-value="1998-10-29" October 1998[120]
$$2.20Gutenberg BibleCopy owned by the General Theological Seminary in New York.–data-sort-value="1455"1450–1455Bernard H. Breslauer on behalf of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgartdata-sort-value="1978-04" April 1978[121]
$$2.17Emancipation ProclamationOne of 27 surviving copies of the Leland-Boker "Authorized Edition" printed by Frederick Leypoldt to benefit the Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission. Signed by Abraham Lincoln and William H. Sewarddata-sort-value="1863"1863data-sort-value="2016-05-25" May 2016[122]
$$2.13Almanac Book of HoursIlluminated book of hours on vellum. Originally made for Marie de BalsacMaster of the Monypenny Breviarydata-sort-value="1495"1490sdata-sort-value="2020-07-29" July 2020[123]
$$2.10 A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Layd Down from the Latest Observations and Best Authorities Agreeable to the Peace of 1783First map of the United States published in America. Previously owned by William L. Dayton and the New Jersey Historical Society.data-sort-value="1784"1784data-sort-value="2010-12-03" December 2010[124]
$$2.10 Letter from Szilard and Einstein to President RooseveltTyped letter written by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein warning that Nazi Germany might develop nuclear weapons and suggesting the US should start its own nuclear program.data-sort-value="1939"1939data-sort-value="2002-03-27" March 2002[125]
$$2.10United States Declaration of IndependenceBroadside printed by John Rogers based on the Pennsylvania Evening Post et al.1776data-sort-value="2025-05-29" May 2022[126]
$$2.05 Like a Rolling StoneHandwritten working lyrics by Bob Dylandata-sort-value="1965"1965data-sort-value="2014-06-24" June 2014[127]
$$2.02 Symphony No. 2Autograph manuscript by the composerdata-sort-value="1908"1908data-sort-value="2014-05-20" May 2014[128]
$$1.95 Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria SforzaBook of hours originally owned by Galeazzo Maria Sforza, and subsequently by William Waldorf Astor–data-sort-value="1476"1471–1476data-sort-value="2011-07-06" July 2011[129]
$$1.88 Kufic QuranAlmost complete manuscript on vellum, produced in North Africa or the Middle East.Previously owned by Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955) and the Hispanic Society of America–data-sort-value="900"Early 10th centurydata-sort-value="2007-10-23" October 2007[130]
$$1.87Thirteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionCopy signed by Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) and various members of Congress–1864data-sort-value="2006-03" March 2006
$$1.85 Opera (Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneid, with argumenta)Second printed edition of the works of Virgil, published in Venice by Vindelinus de Spira in 1470Virgildata-sort-value="1470"1470data-sort-value="2013-06-12" June 2013[131]
$$1.85 MissalIlluminated by the Master of the Prayerbook of Albrecht V–data-sort-value="1435"1430–35data-sort-value="2014-07-16" July 2014[132]
$$1.85 Recuyell of the Historyes of TroyeTranslated and printed by William Caxton (–) in Bruges; the first printed book in English and the first book printed by Caxton. Previously owned by George Hibbert, John Wilks and Thomas Phillipps.data-sort-value="1464"1464data-sort-value="2014-07-15" July 2014[133]
$$1.80Gutenberg BibleCopy originally owned by George Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1751–1804).–data-sort-value="1455"1450–1455Gutenberg Museum in Mainzdata-sort-value="1978-03" March 1978[134]
$$1.79Album of watercoloursdata-sort-value="1555"1555data-sort-value="2006" 2006
$$1.76Liber Insularum ArchipelagiIlluminated Atlas of the Greek Islands on vellum. Previously owned by Thomas Phillipps.data-sort-value="1450"1450data-sort-value="2012-04-10" April 2012[135]
$$1.73 Double plate from King Ottokar's Sceptredata-sort-value="1939"1939data-sort-value="2015-10-24" October 2015[136]
$$1.71 The Birds of AmericaOne of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by the Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo (later Buffalo & Erie County Public Library).data-sort-value="1838"1827–1838data-sort-value="1997-04-21" April 1997[137]
$$1.70 Revisions to Principia MathematicaNewton's autograph manuscript revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Originally owned by David Gregory.1694data-sort-value="2021-07-08" July 2021[138]
$$1.69 Wycliffe New TestamentVellum New Testament in later version, translated into Middle English by Wycliffe and John Purvey.Previously owned by Alexander Peckover and Apsley Cherry-Garrard.data-sort-value="1410"1st half of the 15th centurydata-sort-value="2016-12-05" December 2016[139]
$$1.67 Illustrated folio from the Shahnameh of Shah TahmaspFrom the illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic poem presented by Tahmasp to Selim II. Illustration attributed to Aqa Mirak.Previously owned by Edmond de Rothschild and Arthur A. Houghton Jr.data-sort-value="1540"c.1530–1540data-sort-value="2006-10-11" October 2006[140]
$$1.67 Translation into French by Jean Corbechon of De proprietatibus rerum.Originally made for Charles V of France.data-sort-value="1390"data-sort-value="2010-07-07" July 2010[141]
$$1.65 De humani corporis fabricaThe only known completely coloured copy. Probably the presentation copy given to Charles V by Vesalius in 1543.1543data-sort-value="1998-03-18" March 1998[142]
$$1.60 The WatsonsAutograph manuscript of a draft for the unfinished novel. Originally owned by Cassandra Austen1803data-sort-value="2011-07-14" July 2011[143]
$$1.59 Apple computer contractOriginal Apple Partnership Agreement, signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne–data-sort-value="1976"1976data-sort-value="2011-12-13" December 2011[144]
$$1.56 Description de l'ÉgypteFirst edition copy originally owned by Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier (1775–1835)Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte1817–1830data-sort-value="2011-05-11" May 2011[145]
$$1.55 Arabic-English LexiconFair copy. Commissioned by Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland1842–1876data-sort-value="2014-10" October 2014[146]
$$1.55 CirceAutograph manuscript of chapter of Ulysses with additions, revisions and reworkings by Joyce in the margins.Originally owned by John Quinn.1920The National Library of Irelanddata-sort-value="2010-12-14" December 2000[147]
$$1.54 Alice's Adventures in WonderlandFirst edition copy originally owned by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)1865data-sort-value="1998-12-0" December 1998[148]
$$1.50Jami' al-tawarikh59 folios from the second volume of the "Arabic Manuscript".data-sort-value="1300"Early 14th centuryNasser Khalili for the Khalili Collection of Islamic Artdata-sort-value="1980" 1980[149]
$$1.50United States Declaration of IndependenceBroadside printed by John Holt. One of only five surviving Holt broadsides. Originally owned by Colonel David Mulford et al.1776data-sort-value="2018-11-11" January 2018[150]
$$1.45The Federalist Papers: No. 4Autograph draft manuscript. Originally owned by Jay's sons Peter and William.1787data-sort-value="2015-12-08" December 2015[151]
$$1.44The North American Indian, being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaskadata-sort-value="1907"1907–1930data-sort-value="2012-10-04" October 2012[152]
$$1.44 Letter from George Washington to John Armstrong Sr.Letter from Washington explaining his private thoughts on the U.S. Constitution1788data-sort-value="2013-06-21" June 2013[153]
$$1.43 MurphyAutograph Manuscript. Originally owned by Brian Coffey.1936data-sort-value="2013-07-10" July 2013[154]
$$1.43The FederalistCopy originally owned by George Washington (1732–1799), John Jay and James Madison1788data-sort-value="1990-01-31" January 1990
$$1.42 The North American Indian, being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaskadata-sort-value="1907"1907–1930data-sort-value="2005-10" October 2005[155]
$$1.41Hortus EystettensisDeluxe coloured copy of the first edition1613data-sort-value="2001-11-28" November 2001[156]
$$1.41 EpistolaeFirst edition of the enlarged recension of the letters of Hieronymus (Saint Jerome), printed on vellum in Mainz by Peter Schöffer. Previously owned by Thomas Phillipps.1470data-sort-value="2010-07-07" July 2010[157]
$$1.40 Poisson SolubleAutograph manuscript owned by Simone Collinet1924data-sort-value="2008-05" May 2008[158]
$$1.38 Illustrated folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Ismail IIFrom the illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic poem previously owned by Rudolf Martin. Illustration attributed to Burji.data-sort-value="1577"c.1577data-sort-value="2012-04-25" April 2012[159]
$$1.33 OpticksPresentation copy of the first edition given by Newton to Edmond Halley. Inscribed "Luceo. Ex dono doctissimi Authoris" on title page by Halley.1704data-sort-value="2015-12-02" December 2015[160]
$$1.29 The Complete Book of the Medical ArtEarliest known copy of the work. Previously owned by Baha' al-Din al-'Amilidata-sort-value="0980"c.980data-sort-value="2014-10-08" October 2014[161]
$$1.29 Atlas of England and WalesFirst printed atlas of England and Wales and set of five maps and plates illustrating Drake’s expedition to the West Indies, 1585-1586. London, 1588]-1589data-sort-value="1590"1579–90data-sort-value="2007-03-15" March 2007[162]
$$1.28 De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumFirst edition printed in Nuremberg by Johann Petreius in 15431543data-sort-value="2011-11-30" November 2011[163]
$$1.26 Recuyell of the Historyes of TroyeTranslated and printed by William Caxton (–) in Bruges; the first printed book in English and the first book printed by Caxton. Copy previously owned by 2nd Marquess of Rockingham and 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.data-sort-value="1464"1464data-sort-value="1998-07-08" July 1998[164]
$$1.26Marvel Comics #11939data-sort-value="2019-11-21" November 2019[165]
$$1.25 Hours of the CrossIlluminated manuscript on vellum original owned by John, Duke of Berry and subsequently by Beatrice of Portugal and Henry Pomeroy, 2nd Viscount Harberton.–1425–1435data-sort-value="2006-12-05" December 2006[166]
$$1.25 A Book of RyhmesMiniature manuscript, one of 17 'little' books written by Brontë when she was a child. Purchased by Friends of the National Libraries and subsequently donated to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.1829data-sort-value="2022-04-21" April 2022[167]
$$1.24 Handwritten manuscript of translation into French of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica1745–49data-sort-value="2015-10-29" October 2015[168]
$$1.22Summa de arithmeticaFirst edition of the first vernacular book on algebra and the first description of double-entry bookkeeping1494data-sort-value="2019-07-12" June 2019[169]
$$1.21 American PieHandwritten working lyrics by Don McLeandata-sort-value="1971"1971data-sort-value="2015-04-07" April 2015[170]
$$1.20 A Day in the LifeHandwritten lyrics by John Lennon1967data-sort-value="2010-06" June 2010[171]
$$1.18 United States Declaration of IndependenceBroadside printed by E. Russell et al.1776data-sort-value="2018-01-17" January 2018[172]
$$1.17 DiariesSix volumes of the author's diaries from 1805 to 1814.Stendhal1805–1814preemptively purchased prior to auction by the French state; now held at the Musée Stendhal in Grenobledata-sort-value="2006-06-20" June 2006[173]
$$1.17FrankensteinFirst edition. One of only 500 copies of the original run.Mary Shelley1818data-sort-value="2021-09-20" September 2021[174]
$$1.16 On the Theory of RelativityHandwritten manuscript1912data-sort-value="1987-12" December 1987[175]
$$1.14 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsAuthor's own copy of the first edition1776data-sort-value="2018-12-12" December 2018[176]
$$1.14 Tuhfat al-AhrarTimurid or early Safavid Persian manuscript on variously coloured gold-speckled paperJamidata-sort-value="1500"Early 16th centurydata-sort-value="2020-06-25" June 2020[177]
$$1.11 Scenes from Goethe's FaustAutograph manuscript by the composer1853data-sort-value="2011-11-30" November 2011[178]
$$1.10 Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasardAutograph Manuscript1897data-sort-value="2015-10-15" October 2015[179]
$$3.6Amazing Fantasy #15First appearance of Spider-Man, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko1962data-sort-value="2011" September 2021https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/first-spider-man-comic-book-record-sale-1235010420/
$$1.09 Illuminated double-sided bifolium from Nahj al FaradisThe Angel of Bounty and the arrival of the Second Heaven of Pearls–data-sort-value="1465"data-sort-value="2019-10" October 2019[180]
$$1.08 Geographia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diverse autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte citta et fortesseItalian assembled-to-order atlas1592data-sort-value="2012-04-10" April 2012[181]
$$1.07 Detective Comics #27First appearance of Batman and Bill Finger1939data-sort-value="2010" 2010[182]
$$1.07 Naturalis HistoriaPrinted in Rome on vellum1470data-sort-value="2005-10-25" October 2005[183]
$$1.07 De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumFirst edition printed in Nuremberg by Johann Petreius in 15431543data-sort-value="2013-11-20" November 2013[184]
$$1.07 Young Men's MagazineMiniature manuscript, one of six 'little' books written by Brontë. Purchased by Gérard Lhéritier for the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits. Later purchased by the Brontë Parsonage Museum for $873,600 after Lhéritier's arrest for fraud1830data-sort-value="2011-12-15" December 2011[185] [186]
$$1.05 On the Origin of SpeciesThird edition with autograph annotations for second German edition.Originally owned by Heinrich Georg Bronn.1861data-sort-value="2017-12-13" December 2017[187]
$$1.05 The North American Indian, being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and AlaskaPortfolio and Volumes 1–16data-sort-value="1907"1907–1930data-sort-value="2007-10" October 2007[188]
$$1.04Letter by John Hancock announcing the adoption of the Declaration of IndependenceManuscript letter signed by Hancock as President of Congress1776data-sort-value="2020-01-27" January 2020[189]
$$1.03 OperaFirst edition of the complete works of Plato in any language. Translated into Latin by Marsilio Ficino and printed by Lorenzo de Alopa.Plato1485data-sort-value="2021-04-23" April 2021[190]
$$1.03 Composition NotebookAutograph wartime manuscript of mathematical notes. Left in Turing's will to Robin Gandy.1944data-sort-value="2015-04-13" April 2015[191]
$$1.02 Geographia CosmographiaFirst Ulm edition1482data-sort-value="2009-06-10" June 2009[192]
$$1.02Babe Ruth's contract with the Boston Red SoxSigned by Ruth, Ban Johnson and Harry Frazee–1918data-sort-value="2014-07" July 2014[193]
$$1.02 Illuminated double-sided bifolium from Nahj al FaradisThe Two Hells reserved for Misers and Flatterers–data-sort-value="1465"data-sort-value="2019-10" October 2019[194]
$$1.01 À la recherche du temps perdu vol. 1: Du côté de chez SwannFirst galley proofs of "Du côté de chez Swann". Given to Robert Proust (1873–1935) by the author.1913data-sort-value="2000-06-07" June 2000[195]
$$1.00 Waldseemüller gores Waldseemüller map printed in gores format to be made into globe1507data-sort-value="2005-06" June 2005[196]

Books and manuscripts by century

CenturyNumber sold
pre 10th3
10th3
11th1
12th2
13th6
14th5
15th32
16th23
17th14
18th17
19th31
20th26
21st1

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Kiss . Jemima . Bill Gates on giving away his fortune - and Mark Zuckerberg's engagement? . The Guardian . 13 June 2011 . 23 October 2011 .
  2. Web site: Matthews . Karen . Rare first printing of US Constitution sells for record $43M . . 2021-11-19 . en . 2021-11-21 . mdy-all .
  3. Web site: 毕楠 . Year-ender: Top 10 cultural events from 2019 . 2024-01-15 . www.chinadaily.com.cn.
  4. Web site: Auction details LOT 1381. China Guardian Auctions.
  5. Web site: Kuruvilla . Carol . 2017-09-22 . Mormon Church Drops $35 Million On Printer's Manuscript Of The Book Of Mormon . 2023-07-20 . Huffington Post . en.
  6. News: Frandsen . Tiffany . Mims . Bob . $35 million Book of Mormon manuscript sale called the 'biggest game-changer in Mormon history' . The Salt Lake Tribune . 21 September 2017 . 21 September 2017 .
  7. Web site: Chinese calligraphy letter sets new auction record . BBC News . 16 May 2016 . 6 October 2019.
  8. Web site: Phillips . Tom . Eleventh-century Chinese letter – just 124 characters long – sells for $32m . The Guardian . 17 May 2016 . 6 October 2019.
  9. News: 2023-05-17 . An 1,100-Year-Old Hebrew Bible Sells for $38.1 Million . en . Bloomberg.com . 2023-05-17.
  10. Web site: Ezard . John . Baebes celebrate medieval treasure Sherborne Missal saved by chart-toppers . The Guardian . 7 October 2019.
  11. Web site: Garcia . Guy . People: Dec. 19, 1983 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081222002225/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949915,00.html . dead . December 22, 2008 . Time Magazine . 19 December 1983 . 24 October 2011 .
  12. Web site: Sale Number: N08461: The Magna Carta . Sotheby's . 2 October 2019.
  13. News: Elsworth . Catherine . Magna Carta copy fetches $21m . The Telegraph . 19 December 2007 . 4 October 2019 .
  14. Web site: 宋刻孤本《石壁精舍音注唐书详节》嘉德春拍高价成交 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190113134132/http://www.xinhuanet.com/shuhua/2018-06/22/c_1123014622.htm . dead . January 13, 2019 . Chinese . 22 June 2018 . 30 September 2019 .
  15. Web site: 宋刻孤本拍出亿元天价 《石壁精舍音注唐书详节》成本季最贵古籍 . Chinese . 21 June 2018 . 30 September 2019 .
  16. Web site: British Library acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest intact European book . BBC News . 17 April 2012 . 2 October 2019 .
  17. Web site: The St Cuthbert Gospel . British Library . 8 February 2020 .
  18. Web site: Bay Psalm Book is most expensive printed work at $14.2m . BBC News . 27 November 2013 . 27 November 2013 .
  19. Web site: The Bay Psalm Book Sale . Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  20. Web site: Sale 2819: Renaissance : Lot 157: The Rothschild Prayerbook, a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  21. Web site: Einstein-Besso Manuscript on General Relativity Sells for $13.2 Million . Fine Books and Collections . 14 April 2022.
  22. Web site: The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, part one: Arts of the Islamic World 78 Faridun in the Guise of a Dragon Tests his Sons: Illustrated Folio (F.42) From the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, Attributed to Aqa Mirak, Persia, Tabriz, Royal Atelier, circa 1525-35 . Sotheby's . 7 October 2019.
  23. Web site: Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick 2nd Lord Hesketh : Lot 50: Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick 2nd Lord Hesketh . Sotheby's . 2 October 2019.
  24. News: Gamerman . Ellen . 'Birds' Book Soars to Record . Wall Street Journal . 8 December 2010 . 7 October 2019 .
  25. Web site: Library of Congress Completes Purchase of Waldseemüller Map . Library of Congress . 7 October 2019.
  26. Web site: Sale 19032 : The Exceptional Sale : Lot 12 : SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. Edited by John Heminges (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623. . Christies . 14 October 2020.
  27. Web site: Serjeant . Jill . First collection of Shakespeare's plays sells for almost $10 million . Reuters . 20 October 2020.
  28. Web site: Post-Sale Release: George Washington's Acts of Congress - New York, 22 June 2012 . Christies . 22 June 2010 . 2017-09-13.
  29. Web site: Sale 16423: The Portland Audubon : Lot 1 . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  30. Web site: Rego Barry . Rebecca . The "Portland Audubon" Sells for $9.65 Million . Fine Books & Collections . 2 October 2019.
  31. News: The Valmadonna Trust Library: Part I : Magnificent Manuscripts and the Bomberg Talmud : Lot 12: The Complete Babylonian Talmud, Printed by Daniel Bomberg in Venice, Comprising tractates from the First (1519/20-1523) and Second (1525-1539) Editions . Sotheby's . 6 October 2019 .
  32. Web site: Record Breaking Judaica Sale at Sotheby's . The New York Jewish Week . 2018-12-05.
  33. News: Guo Kuangchao 郭匡超 . Chinese . 太珍貴！《永樂大典》手抄本拍賣成交價台幣2.7億元 . . 9 July 2020 . 2020-07-14 .
  34. Web site: Chine - XVIe Siècle : Lot 231 : Deux rares albums Yongle Dadian . Beaussant Lefèvre . 7 July 2020.
  35. Web site: Lee Harris . Rachel . Racy Memoir for the French National Library . New York Times . 28 April 2021.
  36. Web site: Loft . Halina . The Original Olympic Manifesto Brings Home the Gold . Sotheby's . 18 December 2019 . 19 December 2019.
  37. Web site: Alisher Usmanov donates £6.8m Olympic manifesto to Games museum . The Guardian . 10 February 2020.
  38. Web site: Sale 9326: Books and Manuscripts : Lot 39: Audubon, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America; from Original Drawings. London: Published by the Author, 1827-1838. . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  39. News: #5.5m for classic bird book found in Bute nest . The Herald (Glasgow) . 11 March 2000 . 7 October 2019 .
  40. Web site: Sale 18371 : Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets : Lot 157: A Timurid or Aqquyunlu Qur'an on Chinese Paper . Christies . 25 June 2020.
  41. Web site: The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor, Southern Germany: Late 13th-Early 14th Century . Sotheby's . 22 October 2021.
  42. Web site: Declaration of Independence Fetches $8.14 Million Online . Antiques and the Arts Weekly . 20 August 2021.
  43. Web site: Sale 6012: Wentworth : Lot 2: Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1345-1400). The Canterbury Tales. [Westminster: William Caxton, late 1476 or 1477]. ]. Christies . 6 October 2019.
  44. Web site: Canterbury Tales fetches record £4.6m . BBC News . 9 July 1998 . 23 October 2011 .
  45. Web site: Willsher . Kim . Original Marquis de Sade scroll returns to Paris . The Guardian . 14 July 2020.
  46. Web site: France saves Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom from auction . The Guardian . 14 July 2020.
  47. Web site: 250 John James Audubon - The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon. London: Published by the Author, 1827–1838 . Sotheby's . 22 December 2019.
  48. Web site: Rustam kicking away the boulder pushed by Bahman . Christie's . 14 April 2022.
  49. Web site: Old Master & British paintings Evening Sale including three Renaissance Masterworks from Chatsworth 51 Louis de Gruuthuse's copy of the Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East, in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands (Antwerp or perhaps Bruges), dated 1464] ]. Sotheby's . 7 October 2019.
  50. Web site: Sale 9878: The Library of Abel E. Berland : Lot 100: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623. . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  51. Web site: Shakespeare First Folio Tops $5M . CBS News . 13 July 2006 . 7 October 2019 .
  52. Web site: The Francis Crick 'Secret of Life' Letter: A remarkable letter to his son, revealing one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century . Christie's . 20 October 2019.
  53. News: 25 August 2014 . Superman's Action Comics No. 1 sells for record $6.0 million. .
  54. Web site: Mile High Copy of Superman #1 Sells for Record $5.3 Million CGC . 2022-04-18 . www.cgccomics.com.
  55. Web site: Medieval manuscript lost to the North East can now be seen again . Chronicle Live . Evening Chronicle . 5 October 2019.
  56. Web site: Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts : Lot 36: Mahler, Gustav The Autograph Manuscript of the Second Symphony ("The Resurrection"), the Complete Work in Five Movements . Sotheby's . 5 October 2019.
  57. Web site: Sale 1561: John James Audubon's Birds of America . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  58. News: Reif . Rita . Redoute Watercolors Auctioned to Syndicate . The New York Times . 21 November 1985 . 3 April 2016 .
  59. News: Gutenberg Bible Is Sold for Record $4.9 Million . Los Angeles Times . 23 October 1987 . 2 October 2019 .
  60. Web site: English Literature, History, Fine Bindings, Private Press and Children's Books, Including the First Folio of Shakespeare : Lot 95: Shakespeare, William. Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies. Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount (Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke and W. Aspley), 1623 . Sotheby's . 5 October 2019.
  61. Web site: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets Lot 11 . Christie's . 27 October 2020.
  62. News: Crusader's book sells for £2.75m . The Irish Times . 24 June 1998 . 5 October 2019.
  63. Web site: Ten Most Expensive Books of 2006 . Fine Books & Collections . 5 October 2019 .
  64. Web site: Sale 6179 : The Collection of Barons Nathaniel and Albert von Rothschild : Lot 101: MISSAL, in Latin, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  65. Web site: This Important State Paper: Signer Charles Carroll's Copy of the Declaration of Independence . Freeman's . 20 August 2021.
  66. News: Reif . Rita . Record Price for Mozart Manuscript . The New York Times . 23 May 1987 . 5 October 2019.
  67. Web site: Mozart Scores Auctioned for Record $4.3 Million . Los Angeles Times . 23 May 1987 . 5 October 2019.
  68. Web site: Sale Number: N08735 : James Naismith's Founding Rules of Basketball . Sotheby's . 4 October 2019 .
  69. Web site: Keegan . Tom . Booths purchase original Naismith basketball rules at auction for more than $4 million . 10 December 2010 . 7 October 2019.
  70. Web site: The Hours of Albrecht of Brandenburg, illuminated by Simon Bening, use of Rome . Sotheby's . 8 March 2020.
  71. Web site: Sale 7482: New York, Park Avenue : Lot 2: Audubon, John James. The Birds of America; from Original Drawings. London: Published by the Author 1827-1828. . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  72. Web site: English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations : Lot 311A: Rowling, J.K. Autograph Manuscript of the Tales of Beedle the Bard Translated from the Original Runes by J.K. Rowling . Sotheby's . 2 October 2019.
  73. Web site: The Wardington Library Part 2 : Lot 394: Ptolemaeus, Claudius (c.90–c.168). . Sotheby's . 5 October 2019.
  74. News: Old atlas breaks auction record . BBC News . 10 October 2006 . 6 March 2013 .
  75. Web site: Epistola de insulis nuper inventis . Christies . 15 January 2024.
  76. Web site: Sale 3587 : Importants livres anciens, livres d'artistes et manuscrits : Lot 36: Bible, Pentateuch, in Hebrew - Hamishah humshe Torah, with paraphrase in Aramaic (Targum Onkelos) and commentary by Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac). Edited by Joseph Hayim ben Aaron Strasbourg Zarfati. Bologna: Abraham ben Hayim of Pesaro for Joseph ben Abraham Caravita, 5 Adar I [5] 242 = 25 January 1482. ]. Christies . 3 October 2019.
  77. Web site: 1482 Torah book fetches record $3.87 million at Paris auction . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . 1 May 2014 . 7 October 2019 .
  78. Web site: The Kennedy-Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation . Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  79. Web site: Western Manuscripts and Miniature: 33 - The Rochefoucauld Grail, in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [eastern Artois or western Flanders (most probably Saint-Omer, Tournai or Ghent), c.1315-23] ]. Sotheby's . 26 December 2019.
  80. Web site: Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727, knighted 1705). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. [Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743)]. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society [at the expense of Edmond Halley], to be sold by Samuel Smith and other booksellers, 1687 ]. Christie's . 20 October 2019.
  81. Web site: Master of the Paris Bartholomeus Anglicus (active 1430-1450) . Christies . 28 April 2021.
  82. Web site: The Valmadonna Trust Library: Part I Magnificent Manuscripts and the Bomberg Talmud : Lot 7: Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch with Haftarot and the Five Scrolls, England: 15 Tammuz 4949=2 July 1189 . Sotheby's . 6 October 2019.
  83. Web site: Codex Valmadonna . Museum of the Bible . 10 October 2019.
  84. Web site: John James Audubon: the Birds of America, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America : Lot 101 . Sotheby's . 2 October 2019.
  85. News: Manuscript of Beethoven's 9th sells for almost EUR3 million . The Irish Times . 5 October 2019.
  86. Web site: Presidential and other American Manuscripts from the Dr. Robert Small Trust 85 Lincoln, Abraham, as Sixteenth President . Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  87. Web site: Sale 12139: Valuable Books and Manuscripts : Lot 129: BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750). . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  88. Web site: Washington, George. Autograph letter signed (G:o Washington) to Bushrod Washington, 9 November 1787. 4 pages, large folio, expert, discreet mends to creases. . Christie's . 17 July 2020.
  89. Web site: George Washington letter smashes auction record . BBC News . 17 July 2020.
  90. Web site: Sale 10455 : Valuable Books and Manuscripts Including Cartography : Lot 20: The 'Gospels of Queen Theutberga' in Latin, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum [Lotharingia, perhaps Metz, c.825–850 (before 835?)]. ]. Christies . 2 October 2019.
  91. Web site: Lot105 While the crowd was assembling in front of the house and before the President went up-stairs to the window from which he was to speak, I was with him, and noticed that he carried a roll of manuscript in his hand From a point of concealment behind the window drapery I held a light while he read, dropping the pages of his written speech one by one upon the floor as he finished them. Little Tad scrambled around on the floor, importuning his father to give him 'another,' as he collected the sheets of paper fluttering from the President's hand. . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  92. Web site: HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986), Alejandro JODOROWSKY (né en 1926), Jean GIRAUD (1938-2012) et d'autres. 2022-01-17. www.christies.com. en.
  93. Web site: Shah pays top price at second-hand car sale . heraldscotland.com . Glasgow Herald . 7 October 2019.
  94. Web site: Books, Manuscripts and Photographs, including Nine Manuscripts by Andre Breton from the Simone Collinet Collection 201 Manifeste du surréalisme. Manuscrit autographe. [Lorient-Paris, juillet-août 1924]. ]. Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  95. Web site: Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein") to Eric Gutkind, Princeton, 3 January 1954 . Christie's . 20 October 2019.
  96. Web site: Sale 2622 : Important Books, Atlases and Manuscripts: The Private Library of Kenneth Nebenzahl : Lot 38: Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952). The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1907-1930. ]. Christies . 3 October 2019.
  97. News: Alison. Flood. German library pays £2.5m for 'friendship book', 400 years after it first tried to buy it. The Guardian. London. 2020-08-27. 2020-08-28.
  98. Web site: Agnese, Battista (c. 1500-1564)]. Portolan atlas of the world. Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum. [Venice, c. 1542-46 |url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/agnese-battista-portolan-atlas-of-the-5546150-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5546150&sid=6d86220a-2f52-453b-b1c4-7e248d2535d5 |website=Christie's |accessdate=20 October 2019].
  99. Web site: Sale 13519 : Shakespeare: The Four Folios : Lot 101: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623 . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  100. Web site: Capon . Alex . US collector splashes out £2.48m on four Shakespeare folios at Christie's . 27 May 2016 . 7 October 2019 .
  101. Book: Oswald . Godfrey . Library World Records . 2017 . McFarland & Company . 9781476667775 . 223 . 3rd.
  102. Web site: Reif . Rita . Auctions . New York Times . 10 October 2019.
  103. Web site: Hours and Psalter of Elizabeth de Bohun, Countess of Northampton . Museum of the Bible . 8 March 2020.
  104. Web site: Sale 7982 : The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts, Part III : Lot 26: The Imhof Prayerbook, illuminated by Simon Bening, in Latin and Dutch, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum . Christies . 6 October 2019.
  105. Web site: The Library of Lord Wardington: Important Atlases and Geographies Part One : Lot 143: Doria Atlas. . Sotheby's . 2 October 2019 .
  106. Web site: Besler, Basilius (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis. [Nuremberg]

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    . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  107. Web site: Sale 2751 : Fine Printed Books & Manuscript Including Americana : Lot 170: Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727, knighted 1705). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. [Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743).] London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society [at the expense of Edmond Halley], to be sold by various booksellers, 1687. ]. Christies . 3 October 2019.
  108. News: Kotter . Holland . Rare Blake Book Sells for $2.5 Million at Sotheby's . The New York Times . 24 April 1999 . 7 March 2013 .
  109. Web site: Kerouac, Jean Louis Lebris de (Jack), 1922-1969. Typescript scroll of On the Road (published 1957), comprising the first draft of the definitive Beat Generation novel, the working draft from which the published novel derives. Typed by Kerouac in New York City in a 20-day marathon between April 2 and 22, 1951 . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  110. Web site: A Qur'an Leaf Palimpsest on Vellum Probably Madina, mid 7th Century . Christie's . 20 October 2019.
  111. Book: Bodleian Library. Alan Edward Coates. A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: Blockbooks; woodcut and metalcut single sheets; A. 2005. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-951905-7. 16–.
  112. Web site: Two Centuries of American History 79 Abraham Lincoln, as sixteenth President An extremely rare Manuscript copy of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, signed and endorsed by Abraham Lincoln "Approved. February 1, 1865.") . Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  113. Web site: Gutenberg Bible Census . 27 November 2014 . 3 October 2019 .
  114. Web site: Rheticus Georg Joachim (1514-1574). De libris revolutionum eruditissimi viri...Doctoris Nicolai Copernici… Narratio prima. Gdansk: Franz Rhode, 1540 . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  115. Web site: Mahzor, book containing prayers for the feasts of the liturgical year, in Hebrew, illuminated manuscript on vellum. . Christie's . 17 July 2020.
  116. Web site: Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick 2nd Lord Hesketh : Lot 13: Shakespeare, William. Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the true Original copies. London: Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blound (Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke and W. Aspley), 1623 . Sotheby's . 6 October 2019.
  117. Web site: Sale 7428 : Art of The Islamic and Indian World : Lot 20: Qur'an . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  118. News: Schumann's 2nd Symphony Score Sells for $2.3 Million . LA Times . 14 July 2020.
  119. Web site: Sale 2013: Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library : Lot 60: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543). De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri V. Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1543. . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  120. Web site: Sale 9058: The Archimedes Palimpsest : Lot 1: Archimedes (ca. 287 - 212 BC). On the Equilibrium of Planes; On Floating Bodies; The Method of Mechanical Theorems; On Spiral Lines; On the Sphere and the Cylinder; On the Measurement of the Circle; Stomachion, all in Greek. Palimpsest Manuscript on Vellum (upper text: Euchologion, in Greek, 12th century) . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  121. News: Reif . Rita . Gutenberg Bought at Auction for $2 Million for Stuttgart Library . The New York Times . 8 April 1978 . 3 October 2019 .
  122. Web site: Two Centurreis of American History 78 Abraham Lincoln, as sixteenth President The "Authorised Edition" of the Emancipation Proclamation, Signed by President Abraham Lincoln . Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  123. Web site: Master of the Monypenny Breviary and associates The Almanac Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bourges, c. 1490s] ]. Christie's . 1 August 2020.
  124. Web site: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana: Buell, Abel (1742-1822). A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Layd Down from the Latest Observations and Best Authorities Agreeable to the Peace of 1783. Humbly Inscribed to his Excellency the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut By their Most Obedient and Very Humble Servant Abel Buell. New Haven: Abel Buell, 1784 . Christies . 7 October 2019.
  125. Web site: Einstein, Albert. Typed letter signed (A. Einstein) To President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Peconic, Long Island, 2 August 1939, 1½ pages, 4to (10 7/8 by 8½ in.), on one side each of two sheets of typewriter bond paper, tiny punctures in upper right corners from stapling faint penciled note by Leo Szilard at top: Original, not sent! . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  126. Web site: A rare, contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence . Christies . 15 January 2024.
  127. Web site: Bob Dylan Original Working Autograph Manuscript of "Like a Rolling Stone" - The Final Draft Lyrics as Recorded [June, 1965]. ]. Sotheby's . 19 October 2019.
  128. Web site: The Autograph Manuscript of the Second Symphony in E Minor, OP.27 . Sotheby's . 11 October 2019.
  129. Web site: Sale 7982 : The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts, Part III : Lot 18: The Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, use of Rome, in Latin and Italian, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum . Christies . 6 October 2019.
  130. Web site: Art of The Islamic and Indian World : Lot 10: Property from the Hispanic Society of America, Deaccessioned by Order of the Trustees to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund an Almost Complete Kufic Qur'an . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  131. Web site: Sale 1176 : Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts Lot 82: Vergilius Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera (Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneid, with argumenta). Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1470. . Christies . 3 October 2019.
  132. Web site: Lot 11 Missal, use of Udine, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, [Vienna, c.1430-35] ]. Christie's . 18 October 2019.
  133. Web site: English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations : Lot 502: Lefèvre, Raoul Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye [Translated by William Caxton]. [Ghent or Bruges: David Aubert For] William Caxton, [C. 1473-74] ]. Sotheby's . 6 October 2019.
  134. Book: Kirshenbaum, Sandra . Fine Print . 1978 . S. Kirshenbaum . 102– . Early in March Mr. Kraus sold his Bible, known as the Shuckburgh copy, to the Gutenberg Museum of Mainz for $1,800,000, the highest price ever paid..
  135. Web site: Buondelmonti, Cristoforo (Florence c. 1385-not before 1430 probably Greece). Liber Insularum Archipelagi. Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, in Latin. [Italy, perhaps Florence, c. 1450 |url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/buondelmonti-cristoforo-liber-insularum-archipelagi-illuminated-5546146-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5546146&sid=6d86220a-2f52-453b-b1c4-7e248d2535d5 |website=Christie's |accessdate=19 October 2019].
  136. Web site: Hergé (1907-1983) Tintin, le sceptre d'Ottokar . Sotheby's . 1 January 2020.
  137. Web site: Sale 8626: Printed Books and Manuscripts : Lot 5: Audubon, John James. The Birds of America; from Original Drawings. [Volumes I-III, containing plates 1-300, lacking vol. IV]. London: Published by the Author, 1827-1836. ]. Christies . 2 October 2019.
  138. Web site: Isaac Newton Revising his Magnum Opus . Christies . 20 August 2021.
  139. Web site: The Bible Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell RYRIE 9 John Wycliffe Wycliffie New Testament in the Later Version, in Middle English [England, 1st half of the 15th Century] ]. Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  140. Web site: Arts of the Islamic World 36 Burzuy Presents the Book of Kalilah wa Dimnah to King Nushirvan, Illustrated leaf from the royal Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, folio 649, Attributed to Aqa Mirak, Tabriz, Safavid, Persia, circa 1530-40 . Sotheby's . 7 October 2019.
  141. Web site: Sale 7911 : The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula, Part I : Lot 31: Bartholomaeus Anglicus (by 1203-1272), Le livre des propriétés des choses, in the French translation of Jean Corbechon, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  142. Web site: Sale 8854: The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Part : Lot 213: Vesalius, Andreas (1514-64). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. . Christies . 2 October 2019.
  143. Web site: Autograph Draft Manuscript of her Unfinished Novel 'The Watsons' . Sotheby's . 11 October 2019.
  144. Web site: Apple computer contract and dissolution of contract signed by Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne (3 documents) . Sotheby's . 15 October 2019.
  145. Web site: Sale 1057 : Collection Michel Wittock: quatrième partie - De Marius-Michel à Jean de Gonet / Jean-Joseph Tessier et La Description de l'Égypte Lot 80: Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1809-1813, Imprimerie royale, 1817-[1830]. ]. Christies . 5 October 2019.
  146. Web site: Edward William Lane (d.1876), Arabic-English Lexicon, printers' manuscript copy, 40 volumes, second half 19th century, with 10 volumes of al-Saghani's 'Ubab, Egypt or Syria, Mamluk, dated 653 AH/1255 AD . Sotheby's . 10 October 2019.
  147. Web site: Joyce, James (1882-1941). Autograph manuscript of the Circeepisode of Ulysses, a complete working draft with very extensive additions to the dialogue, revisions, word substitutions and other reworkings by Joyce in the left-hand margins of the pages and with additional sections of dialogue, word lists and other notes written on some versos. [Paris, July-December 1920]. ]. Christie's . 28 December 2019.
  148. Web site: Sale 9046: Lewis Carroll & Alice: Private Collection of Justin Schiller : Lot 38: Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: [The Clarendon Press for] Macmillan, 1865. ]. Christies . 2 October 2019.
  149. Book: Blair . Sheila . A compendium of chronicles : Rashid al-Din's illustrated history of the world . 1995 . Oxford University Press . 1-874780-65-X . 36.
  150. Web site: Kenmore . Abraham . 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence sold in Potsdam for $1.5m . nny360.com . Waterton Daily Times . 7 October 2019.
  151. Web site: Federalist Papers. -- Jay, John (1745-1829). Autograph draft manuscript of Federalist Number Four [ca. 7 November 1787]. 6pp., folio, foxed, some soiling. Extensive emendations and interlineations throughout in Jay's hand. Wear at edges and creases catching portions of a few words. ]. Christie's . 16 July 2020.
  152. Web site: Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952) The North American Indian. Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. . Swann Galleries . 20 October 2019.
  153. Web site: Lot 188 WASHINGTON, George. Autograph letter signed (G:o Washington), to John Armstrong (1717-1795), Mount Vernon, 25 April 1788. 4o, 7 pages on two bifolia (9 x 7 3/8 in.). Professionally conserved: two horizontal folds neatly reinforced, slightly obscuring some text, light dampstains to page [4], left-hand margins of pages [1] and [4] with narrow strip from old mount. ]. Christie's . 16 July 2020.
  154. Web site: Beckett, Samuel "Sasha Murphu", The Complete Autograph Draft Manusript of his novel "Murphy", heavily corrected and revised throughout, with many cancelled passages . Sotheby's . 16 October 2019.
  155. Web site: Lot 12 . Christie's . 20 October 2019.
  156. Web site: Basilius Besler (1561-1629). . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  157. Web site: The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula, Part I : Lot 10: Hieronymus (St., c.342-420). Epistolae. Edited by Adrianus Brielis (d.1472). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 September 1470 . Christies . 6 October 2019.
  158. Web site: Books, Manuscripts and Photographs, including nine manuscripts by Andre Breton from the Simone Collinet Collection 202 Poisson soluble. Manuscrit autographe. [août-septembre 1924]. ]. Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  159. Web site: An Illustrated and Illuminated Leaf from the Shah Isma'il II Shahnameh: The party after homage paid to Kay Khosraw by nobles following his enthronement, ascribed to the artist Burji, Qazvin, Persia, Safavid, circa 1577 . Sotheby's . 11 October 2019.
  160. Web site: Property from the collection of Robert S Pirie volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts : Lot 918: Newton, Isaac Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1704 . Sotheby's . 6 October 2019.
  161. Web site: Arts of the Islamic World 34 'Ali Ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (latinised as 'Haly Abbas', d.circa 995 AD), Kitab kamil al-sina'ah al-tibbiyah ('The Complete Book of the Medical Art'), Iraq or Western Persia, Fars, probably Shiraz, last quarter 10th Century AD . Sotheby's . 11 October 2019.
  162. Web site: Saxton, Christopher (c. 1542-c. 1610). An Atlas of England and Wales. London: Christopheer Saxton, 1579-1590 . Sotheby's . 15 October 2019.
  163. Web site: Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts 6 Property of J.R. Ritman Copernicus, Nicolaus. De Revolutionibs Orbium Coelestium Libri VI. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1543 . Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  164. Web site: Sale 6012 : Wentworth : Lot 1: Le Fevre, Raoul (fl. 1464). Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Translated from French into English by William Caxton (c. 1420-1491). [Bruges:] William Caxton, [1473 or early 1474].English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations : Lot 502: Lefèvre, Raoul Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye [Translated by William Caxton]. [Ghent or Bruges: David Aubert For] William Caxton, [C. 1473-74] ]. Christies . 6 October 2019.
  165. Web site: First Marvel comic sets auction record of $1.3 million . The Japan Times . 27 December 2019.
  166. Web site: The Wardington Library: Incunabula and the Wardington Hours 43 Hours of the Cross, illuminated manuscript on vellum. Paris, 1425-1435 . Sotheby's . 7 October 2019.
  167. Web site: Nathan-Kazis . Josh . Brontë Manuscript Buyer Will Donate Book To Museum . . 25 April 2022 . 27 April 2022.
  168. Web site: du Châtelet, Émilie. Exposition abrégée du système du monde selon les principes de Monsieur Newton, incluse dans le second tome des Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle d'Isaac Newton. Entre 1745 et 1749. Copies manuscrites de la main de plusieurs secrétaires comportant de très nombreux ajouts, becquets et corrections autographes . Christie's . 15 October 2019.
  169. Web site: Pacioli, Luca (Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri; c.1445-1517). Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità. Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, 10-20 November 1494 . Christie's . 17 October 2019.
  170. Web site: Don McLean (b.1945). The complete working manuscript for the song "American Pie", with numerous revisions and unpublished deleted sections. [Cold Spring, NY and Philadelphia, PA, 1970-71] ]. Christie's . 15 October 2019.
  171. Web site: Sotheby's Books & Manuscripts New York . Sotheby's . 15 October 2019.
  172. Web site: Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana, Including Cartography : Lot 176: The Declaration of Independence in Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled. … Salem, Massachusetts-Bay: Printed by E. Russell, by Order of Authority, [CA. 18–20 July 1776] ]. Sotheby's . 5 October 2019.
  173. Web site: Rare French book collection sets records at auction . ABC Online . 6 October 2019.
  174. Web site: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Uncut in original boards . Christie's . 20 September 2021.
  175. Web site: Reif . Rita . Einstein Paper Sets Auction Record . The New York Times . 15 October 2019.
  176. Web site: Valuable Books and Manuscripts : Lot 220: Smith, Adam (1723-1790). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776 . Christies . 6 October 2019.
  177. Web site: Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami (D. AH 898/1492 AD): Tuhfat al-Ahrar . Christies . 26 October 2020.
  178. Web site: Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts 173 Schumann, Robert. The Autograph Composing Manuscript of Szenes aus Goethe's "Faust" [WOO 3] ]. Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  179. Web site: De la Bibliothèque Stéphane Mallarmé 163 Mallarmé, Stéphane Jamais [sic] Un Coup de Dés N'Abolira le Hasard. Maquette Autographe pour Firmin-Didot, Imprimeur d'Ambroise Vollard. [Avril ou Début Mai 1897] ]. Sotheby's . 8 October 2019.
  180. Web site: Lot 38 Two folios from the Magnificent Timurid manuscript, the Nahj al-Faradis . Christie's . 22 December 2019.
  181. Web site: Important Books, Atlases and Manuscripts: The Private Library of Kenneth Nebenzahl: Lafreri, Antonio (c.1512-1577) and Claudio Duchetti (d.1585). Geographia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diverse autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte citta et fortesse di diverse provintie stampate in rame con studio et diligenza in Roma. Rome: Pietro de Nobili, [1592]. ]. Christie's . 14 October 2019.
  182. News: Gustines . George Gene . Batman is turning 80. Fighting crime must pay . The Irish Times . 27 December 2019.
  183. Web site: 1647 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (23/24-79 AD) . Sotheby's . 14 October 2019.
  184. Web site: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543). De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI. Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1543 . Christie's . 19 October 2019.
  185. Web site: Brontë, Charlotte. Second Series of the Young Men's Magazines . Sotheby's . 23 December 2019.
  186. News: Rare Charlotte Bronte book coming home after museum's auction success . BBC News . 18 November 2019 . 23 December 2019.
  187. Web site: Valuable Books and Manuscripts: Lot 211 Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: W. Clowes and Son for John Murray, 1861 . Christies . 14 October 2019.
  188. Web site: Sale 2124 Lot 53 Curtis, Edward S. The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. . Swann Galleries . 20 October 2019.
  189. Web site: John Hancock, manuscript letter signed, announcing the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, 6 July 1776 . Sotheby's . 4 February 2020.
  190. Web site: Plato's Opera . Christie's . 29 April 2021.
  191. Web site: Turing, Alan Mathison. 1912-1954. Composition notebook. . Bonham's . 11 October 2019.
  192. Web site: The Property of a Charitable Institution Ptolemaeus, Claudius. Cosmographia [Translated by Jacobus Angelus, Edited by Nicolaus Germanus]. Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482 ]. Sotheby's . 26 December 2019.
  193. Web site: Babe Ruth contract auctioned off . ESPN . 13 July 2014 . 11 October 2019.
  194. Web site: An Illustrated Double-Sided Bifolium from the Nahj al-Faradis: The Two Hells Reservee for Misers and Flatterers . Christie's . 22 December 2019.
  195. News: Sale 6298 : Important Manuscripts & Printed Books : Lot 73: Marcel-Valentin- Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust . Christies . 5 October 2019.
  196. Web site: Martin Waldseemüller (c.1470 - c.1522). World map in the form of a set of terrestrial globe gores. St. Dié: 1507 . Christies . 11 October 2019.

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