Before this book came out in huge print run for the mass market, JK Rowling has made seven original

We have put together a list of the ten most expensive book ever sold. After watching them, go to the attic to make sure you have some forgotten dusty tomes - maybe you millionaires, without you even knowing it.
For the first time printed in 1794, the book The First Book of Urizen is one of the major works (and some say most) from Blake's oeuvre. One of only eight remaining copies was sold at auction postal mail in New York (Sotheby's), in 1999, for $ 2.5 million to a private collector
Before this book came out in huge print run for the mass market, JK Rowling has made seven original copies, which the author has written and illustrated postal mail with his own hand. Six copies were distributed to friends and editors, but in 2007 one of the seven books placed on auction. Amazon.com grabbed her for a whopping $ 3.98 million, making this the most expensive modern copy of the manuscript ever purchased at auction. The money from the sale of books donated to the humanitarian campaign for The Children's Voice.
The first printed atlas of the world, and the first book in the world in which there are engraved illustrations, Ptolemyjeva Cosmographia in 1477 was sold at auction in London (Sotheby's) 2006 for 2,136,000 (then $ 4 million).
The book Traité des arbres fruitiers author Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, which are illustrated by Pierre Antoine Poiteau and Pierre Jean François Turpin - $ 4.5 milionaDefinitivno most expensive book ever written about fruit trees (contains sixteen different types!), A copy of this valuable set of five volumes of illustrations and text sold for about $ 4.5 million in 2006.
A copy of the Gutenberg Bible was sold in 1987 for a then-record $ 4.9 million at auction in New York (Christie's). In the world there are only 48 of these books, which were first printed movable strainer.
Although the original price of the book First Folio was one pound (two to three if you wanted a leather cover or other decoration), preserved specimens are now among the most expensive in the collector postal mail of books. It is estimated that there are only 228 pieces (of the original 750). Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2001 he bought a copy for $ 6,166,000 at auction in New York.
The first edition of the 15th century was sold for 4.6m (then $ 7.5) at Christie's in London in 1998. Of the 12 known copies of the first edition in 1477, this is the longest remained in private hands, originally bought for 6, and was purchased by the Earl Fitzwilliam on sale John Radcliffe Library at Christie's in 1776.
Its development was commissioned by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, for the altar of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral in Brunswick, and it was bought postal mail by the German government at auction in London in 1983 for 8,140,000, postal mail (then $ 11.7 million). With 266 pages, postal mail including 50 full-page illustrations, postal mail the book is considered a masterpiece of novelistic postal mail calligraphy from the 12th century.
The most famous of da Vinci's scientific journal, the notebook in which the 72 pages of great thinker of his handwritten thoughts and theories on everything from fossils to movement sciences to this location because of the moon shines. The manuscript was first purchased in 1717 by Thomas Coke, who later became the Earl of
Leicester, and then it was, in 1980, bought by a collector Armand Hammer (who is 14 years the owner of the manuscript, and the book bearing his name). Bill Gates in 1994 bought the magazine at auction for $ 30,800,000, which is to become the most expensive book ever purchased. Gates scanned this book for screensaver for Microsoft Plus! Windows 95th
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