AbeBooks top 10 most expensive sales from December 2008

1. 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.
2. Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham - $6,000 (£3954)  First edition and first printing of Graham’s legendary book on speculative investing - published in 1934
3. 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.
4. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - $5,750 (£3789) True first edition, first printing from 1957 - signed by Ayn Rand
5. Cezanne by Duret, Mirbeau et al - $5,600 (£3690) First edition 1914, limited to 600 copies, one of 400 printed on Papier a Grain.
   
6. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - $4,870 (£3209) First London edition, published 1883. Includes publisher's adverts dated October 1883.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.