- Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense Zee-en Lant-Reise by Johan Nieuhoff - $6,849 (£4512) Voyages and Travels into Brazil, and the East Indies by this 17th century Dutch explorer.
- Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham - $6,000 (£3954) First edition and first printing of Graham’s legendary book on speculative investing - published in 1934
- Le Capital by Karl Marx - $5,795 (£3819) First French edition of Das Kapital, published in 1872 and revised by Marx himself. The English edition, edited by Engels, was based on the French.
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - $5,750 (£3789) True first edition, first printing from 1957 - signed by Ayn Rand
- Cezanne by Duret, Mirbeau et al - $5,600 (£3690)
First edition 1914, limited to 600 copies, one of 400 printed on Papier a Grain.
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - $4,870 (£3209) First London edition, published 1883. Includes publisher's adverts dated October 1883.
- Hali Magazine (147 issues) - $4,805 (£3166) A complete run, issues 1 to 147 from 1978 to 1995, of Hali – a London-based magazine devoted to oriental rugs and carpets.
- On the Anatomy of the Breast by Astley Paston Cooper - $4,729 (£3116) First edition, published in 1840. Two volumes with 27 lithographed plates. The last book written by the famous English surgeon.
- The Quran Al-Qur'an of Sultan Mulay Zaidan $4,364 (£2876) A 1996 Spanish facsimile edition of the 1599 publication from Marrakech, Morocco. Limited pressing of 980 copies.
- The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus by Nostradamus - $4,300 (£2834) The first English translation of the works of Nostradamus, printed in 1672. Rebound in leather.
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