Marketing & Events: Most Expensive Books
Sold on AbeBooks in July
Buyers appreciate that they can find any book from AbeBooks booksellers,
and the list of most expensive books sold on AbeBooks.com during June
once again shows how vast your selection is!
- Relativity:
The Special And General Theory by Albert Einstein
- $12,500.00
First American edition from 1920, translated by Robert W. Lawson.
A near fine copy including a sketch of Einstein by Hermann Struck,
dated 1920. It is also signed by the author "A. Einstein. 46."
- Mémoires
de M. Le Duc de Saint-Simon by Saint-Simon (Louis
de Rouvroy, duc de) - $8,474.00
The famous memoirs of an aristocrat in the court of King Louis XIV.
- Out
of My Later Years by Albert Einstein - $6,825.00
Covering a 15-year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this
book have been drawn from Einstein's articles, addresses, letters
and assorted papers. A first American edition, signed and dated “51”
by Albert Einstein.
- Monumens
de la vie privée des douze Césars d'après
by P.F. Hugues dit d'Hancarville - $5,505.00
Pornographic volume from 1780 by French pseudo-aristocrat and amateur
art dealer. First and definite edition of the famous work whose titles
has only 10 lines, instead of the 11 lines of the original edition.
Contemporary calfskin volumes on 5 raised bands with gilt stamped
titles and ornaments on back. including 50 plates with copper engravings.
- The
Architectural Side of Golf by H.N. Wethered &
T. Simpson - $5,073.00
H.N. Wethered was the father of two famous amateur golfers, Joyce
and Roger Wethered, while Tom Simpson was a golf course architect
who designed, among others, Cruden Bay in Scotland, Morfontaine in
France and redesigned Ballybuion in Ireland. This book from 1929 is
both an important historical work on golf architecture and a definitive
guide on how to layout and maintain a golf course.
- Codex
Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini - $5,000.00
First limited edition from 1981 in fine condition. A true cult classic,
the book is an encyclopedia guide, only partially comprehensible,
to an alien universe. Divided in eleven chapters, partitioned in two
sections with each chapter pertaining to a different aspects of the
universe (Natural world, machines, architecture, humanities etc).
The colophon at the back of volume two is signed by author and numbered.
- Pragmatism
/ A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William
James - $5,000.00
An important association copy of "Pragmatism", inscribed
to James' long-time friend and intellectual companion James Jackson
Putnam on front free endpaper: " James J. Putnam, from its co-author,
W. J. May 31, 1907." Personal inscriptions by James are becoming
uncommon. This copy with penciled annotations, almost entirely in
the later parts of the book and particularly on the rear endpapers.
- Roma Sotteranea Cristiana. Descritta ed illustrate
by
J.B. de Rossi - $4,839.43
Complete with all 154 chromo-lithograph plates finely executed by
the pontifical printing-office after drawings made by Giovanni Battista
de Rossi. De Rossi was an Italian archeologist, famous for his rediscovery
of early Christian catacombs. In 1849 he rediscovered the lost catacombs
of Saint Callistus along the Via Antica. The catacombs were opened
in the early 3rd century, as the principal Christan cemetery in Rome,
were nine 3rd-century popes were buried.
- Perestroika
by Mikhail Gorbachev - $4,500.00
This is a leather bound signed limited edition by The Easton Press.
Limited to 250 copies with luxurious maroon leather of this very important
work by one of the men credited with aiding the end of the cold war.
- Long
Walk To Freedom by Mandela Nelson - $4,379.64
This is an incredibly rare special edition leather bound collector's
edition of the autobiography "Long Walk To Freedom". Hand
signed by Mr. Mandela. Perfect condition as issued by the publishers,
with all original certificates and documentation. This is the true
first edition, first printing. It is a special deluxe limited edition
set. Individually numbered and hand signed.
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