I browsed through the book section of the web 2.0 awards. Biblio.com allows you to search through over 50 million rare books, maunscripts and incunabula. Some interesting finds were:
First-edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Flappers and Philosophers' in green-cloth, lettered in gilt and blind $ 55,000
A very rare first issue of Baudelaire’s “Fleurs du mal,”Containing the Six Suppressed Poems
$19,500
A signed and inscribed presentation copy of Louis Ferdinand Celine's Voyage Au Bout de La Nuit by Editions Denoel et Steele $27, 000
Cosmographica by Ptolemy Super-Royal folio, with woodcut historiated and Maiblumen initials, ornamental woodcut borderpieces $1,275,000
Bibliophilia is not for the man of humble means.
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No - not at all! I suppose museums and so on have to fight for the budgets to get hold of these documents etc instead, as a result. Or rent them from the rich rich owners....
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