1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - $11,000 (£7,761)
First
edition, first printing from 1951. Fine copy of the true first printing.
2. Dreams
From My Father by Barack Obama - $8,500 (£6,000)
First
edition, first printing of this 1995 book, signed by Obama.
3. Summa
Theologiae, pars Secunda by Antoninus Florentinus - $6,218 (£4,389)
Published
in 1496, these two volumes attempt to describe the fields of ethics and
economics in and around Florence.
4. Peter
Beard: Art Edition by Owen Edwards - $5,495 (£3,879)
Limited
edition elephant folio photobook from Tashen, published in 2006. Each of
the 2,250 copies were signed by Beard.
5. Forever
Odd by Dean Koontz - $4,550 (£3,212)
One of 26
signed lettered copies (this copy was E) of the second book to feature
Koontz’s character, Odd Thomas.
6. De
Urbibus, Arcibus, Castellisque Condendis, ac Muniendis Rationes Aliquot,
Praesenti Bellorum Necessitati ac Commodatissimae by Albrecht Dürer - $4,200 (£2,965)
Published in
1535, this work includes 12 woodcut illustrations on 10 folding leaves.
This copy is the first Latin edition.
7. Persian
Hunting Manuscript - $4,004 (£2,826)
No exact printing
date on this hunting manuscript from the late 18th or early 19th
century. Decorated with 10 paintings attributed to Muhammad Sadeq
or her school.
8. Plasma
Chemistry and Plasma Processing - $3,999 (£2,823)
Twenty one
volumes containing 80 issues of the famous scientific quarterly journal.
9. Le
Maitre-d'Hotel Francais, Traité des Menus a servir a Paris, a St-Pétersbourg, a
Londres et a Vienne. Tome premier et second by Marie Antonin Carême - $3,588 (£2,533)
A book of menus served in Paris, St. Petersburg,
London and Vienna. Carême (1784-1833) cooked for King George IV, Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis I of
Austria.
10. The Colonization Scheme Considered, in its Rejection
by the Colored People by Samuel E. Cornish & Theodore S. Wright - $3,500
(£2,471)
Published in 1840, this pamphlet sets forth the
objections of two African Americans to the plans of colonization schemes.
