[custom_adv] The Tales of Beedle the Bard The Biddle storyteller was released in 2007 and contains witchcraft stories that play an important role in the latest Harry Potter series. Mrs. Rowling has produced seven manuscripts of Biddle that are filled with illustrations. These books are incredibly beautiful and have a leather cover with silver ornaments and precious stones. [custom_adv] Traité des arbres fruitiers This French eighteenth century book is written by Henry Louis and includes five volumes that are filled with accurate illustrations. This handwritten edition was sold in 2006 for $ 4.5 million. Yes, one person has spent four and a half million dollars on a book about fruit trees! [custom_adv] The Gutenberg Bible This is the first Bible edition printed by Johann Gutenberg. Despite its mass production, Gutenberg's Bible is still extremely rare and valuable, with a clear indication of $ 5.4 million. Only 48 copies of the original books published in the 1450s remain. [custom_adv] First Folio Comedies, Histories and Tragedies William Shakespeare's collection of plays is one of the best literary treasures of history. Of the 750 copies published seven years after Shakespeare's death in 1623, only 228 copies remain. Microsoft's founder Paul Allen bought one of them at an auction in 2001 for $ 6.5 million. [custom_adv] The Canterbury Tales The collection of medieval enduring stories by the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer was sold in 1998 for $ 7.5 million. Today there are only 12 original editions, written in 17,000 lines and 24 stories. [custom_adv] Birds of America In the years 1827 to 1838, John James Audubon published a collection of Luxury books that portrays hundreds of North American bird species. A total of 435 illustrations are the first version of the American Birds, only 119 of which remain. The other thing that makes this book worthwhile is that the six species of birds that are shown are now extinct. [custom_adv] The Gospel of Henry the Lion Henry Shieldd who from 1142 to 1180 was the Duke of Bavaria who ordered this book. The text of this book is a masterpiece, 266 pages filled with 50 Roman illustrations that depict scenes from the four gospels. The book was sold in 1983 for $ 11.7 million. [custom_adv] Rothschild Prayer Book The book includes a few prayers worth $ 13.4 million. The Rothschild prayer book is compiled in the early 1500s and has 254 pages. In 1999, an Australian businessman buys it and lent it to the Australian National Library in Canberra. [custom_adv] Bay Psalm The Gulf Book is the first book published in the United States. In 1640, the Gulf Book was published at the Cambridge Printing House, Massachusetts. There are about 11 versions of it still intact available to libraries and universities. But one of them belongs to the American merchant who bought it in 2013 for $ 14.2 million. [custom_adv] St. Cuthbert Gospel This pocket version of the Gospel is one of the earliest examples of Western bookbinding. It was created in the eighth century and has been in the coffin of St. Catherine for years. The dimensions of this book are 14 by 9 centimeters. The British Library has bought it 10.7 million dollars. [custom_adv] The Magna Carta Magna Carta is the thirteenth century charter of English law and one of the most famous texts of history. This book is one of the first fundamental concepts of human rights and limits the power of the king. Today, only 17 of them remain, one of which was sold for $ 21.3 million in 2007. [custom_adv] The Codex Leicester Bill Gates The current record for the most expensive book in history is the 72-page book, which is packed with notes and theories of the renaissance geniuses. In 1994 Bill Gates bought it from an art collector for $ 30.8 million.
