Books - Auction

Dates: 3.6.2009 to 24.11.2009. Christie's holds the world auction record price for any book, $8.8 million for Audubon's Birds of America (March 2000) and for any manuscript, for Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Hammer ($30.8 million; October 1994). In fact, Christie's holds the world auction record in virtually every collecting category of books and manuscripts, including those for incunabula, literature, illuminated manuscripts, children's books, natural history, and a library. Over the past five years, a Christie's team of highly experienced and extremely knowledgeable specialists has secured more than half of the global book auction market by value.

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