We are very pleased to share with you that the 1st and 5th most expensive books sold in April, (see below), were sold through the newly launched AbeBooks.it - a significant reminder that international orders make up a large part of AbeBooks' (and your) business, with books in Spanish, French, Latin, German and Italian as well as in English.
In fact, items ordered through AbeBooks European web sites (AbeBooks.co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, and IberLibro.com) average between 25 and 30% of total AbeBooks orders, and up to 50% of those are sold to non-English speaking markets.
Having your books automatically listed on all of the AbeBooks international domains is one of the benefits of being an AbeBooks bookseller.
Tirso de Molina, was actually promoted in the Rare Book Room on our Spanish website IberLibro.com for a time, before finally being sold via AbeBooks newest website AbeBooks.it. Our Marketing Team updates the book rooms on a monthly basis taking interesting and unusual titles that AbeBooks booksellers are listing in: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, North America.
The Most Expensive Books Sold in April:
1. Autographed Letter by Edward Lear - $11,491
A
two-page illustrated autograph letter by the nonsense poet Edward Lear,
most famous for writing The Owl and the Pussycat, dated 9th September
1867. The letter contains a detailed self-caricature sketch showing
Lear with outstretched limbs, as well as a comedic request to visit the
recipient.
2. Biblia Latina Printed by Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt - $10,807
Printed
in 1484, these bibles were the first to use the original Greek and
Hebrew manuscripts to improve the common Latin Vulgate bible text. The
first "Fontibus Ex Graecis" Biblia Latina was published 1479 by
Amerbach and was named after the first line of three distichs
(couplets) that were included in the texts. Johannes Herbort de
Seligenstadt used Amerbach’s revised second edition for this Biblia
Latina.
3. Historia Plantarum Universalis by Johann Bauhin - $10,255
Botanist
Johann Bauhin's great work, printed at Yverdun in 1650-1651. These
famous volumes contain botanical data for thousands of species with
considerable attention paid to different varieties of the same plant.
4.
Corpus Nummorum Italicorum. Primo Tentativo di un Catalogo Generale
delle Monete Medievali e Moderne Coniate in Italia o da Italiani in
Altri Paesi by Corpus Nummorum Italicorum - $7,500
Twenty volumes, 1910-1943 - the standard reference on Italian coins from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
5. Viaggio Negle Stati Uniti Dell`America Settentrio by Luigi Castiglioni - $7,500
Account
of the travels of the young count Castiglioni (1757-1832); who was the
first Italian to travel the American South. His narrative is an
important overview of the United States for the time, especially for
agricultural and botanical information. Two volumes.
6. AMBIX by Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry - $5,688
53 volumes of the official journal for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 1937-38 to 2006
7. Comedias Verdaderas by Tirso de Molina - $5,300
Three
volumes printed from 1734-1736. A beautiful third edition of the Truth
Comedies by the Spanish Baroque poet and playwright, who gave the world
Don Juan
8. The Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett - $5,182
Complete
set of this very rare limited edition of the works of Samuel Beckett,
published in 1970 to celebrate his Nobel Prize. This is No. 195 of only
200 sets. "Waiting for Godot" is signed by Beckett under the
limitation notice.
9. Mémoire pour le Sieur de de Boishebert by Charles Deschamps of Boishebert - $4,719
Charles
Deschamps of Boishebert was born in Quebec in 1727. As a Marine officer
in the French army, he played an important role in various command
posts between 1746 and 1760. This memoir gives detailed descriptions of
several historical events in this period and the role played by
Boishebert.
10. Histoire de l'oeil by Lord Auch - $4,566
The
Story of the Eye, written by Georges Bataille (1897-1962), details the
sexual experimentation of two teenage lovers, and their increasing
perversion. The book is widely considered not only the best surrealist
work of fiction but also the most important erotic novel written since
1900.
We would like to introduce the new Director of Marketing & Business Development for Europe, Mr. Christian Reimann. 