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List of most expensive books and manuscripts

List of most expensive books and manuscripts

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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.

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Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million.

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.

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Books and manuscripts by century

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Notes

  1. 207 million Chinese yuan

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    "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. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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    "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. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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    "Beckett, Samuel "Sasha Murphu", The Complete Autograph Draft Manusript of his novel "Murphy", heavily corrected and revised throughout, with many cancelled passages". Sotheby's. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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    "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. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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