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A large number of artifacts and works of art have been auctioned over the past year, including documents or manuscripts, including old books or equipment. News Atlas released a report on the highest value in 2018.
10. Lunar Observatory
Selling price: 612,5 thousand dollars
– An auction in October of a rock found in northwestern Africa in 2017 was divided into six parts, the largest weighs 2939 grams, while the total weight of the piece is 5.5 kg.
– Although many museums around the world have pieces of meteorites, this piece was auctioned last year and sold for more than half a million dollars.
9. The book "Galileo Galilei"
Selling price: 520 thousand dollars
– The auction house Sotheby's sold the book "The Difesa" to the world "Galileo Gallile" in September at a price of £ 400,000 (about $ 520,000).
– One of the most valuable copies of Galileo's writing was sold in 2016 for $ 320.3 thousand at an auction by Christie's.
– There are 40 copies of this book around the world, but only 10 have been auctioned in the last century.
8. Manuscript on the origin of the species of the world "Charles Darwin"
Selling price: 647,7 thousand dollars
– Sotheby's has proposed to the auction last July a rare manuscript of Charles Darwin, sold about $ 650,000.
– Darwin was known for his controversial scientific work on the origin of species and natural life, and the sale of one of the manuscripts dealing with this issue was a surprise.
7. "Atlas Maps" for "Joan Blue"
Selling price: 699.6 thousand dollars
– On May 26, 2018, Atlas "Atlas Maior" was sold as part of an auction organized by Arinberg.
– The importance of this version in the quality map of the known world of America in China, and published for the first time in the Dutch capital "Amsterdam" in 1662, only 300 copies.
6. The book "Revising the Landscape" by Kamal El Din Abi El Hassan
Selling price: 765,4 thousand dollars
– is a first copy of the book "Revision of the view and vision", which explains the correction of the optics.
5. Doctoral dissertation for the world "Stephen Hawking"
Selling price: 766,7 thousand dollars
– Christie's sold the Ph.D. dissertation of the late physicist Stephen Hawking at the auction last November.
– The thesis is one of five signed copies of Hawking and, when presented, the deceased scientist was diagnosed with motor neuromuscular disease in 1962.
– "Hawking" in this thesis about the idea of expanding the universe and then put on the site of the University of "Cambridge" in 2017.
4. lunar rocks
Selling price: 855 thousand dollars
– A group of rare lunar rocks was auctioned last year for $ 855,000, compared with an estimate of $ 700,000 to $ 1 million in November.
– These rocks were collected by human expeditions that went to the moon in the 1970s. The mission was Soviet.
3. Nobel Prize Medal for "Richard Veneman"
Selling price: 975 thousand dollars
– The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Richard Veneman in 1965 jointly with Julian Schweinger for their efforts in research on the dynamics of quantum dynamics.
– The medal was awarded in November at auction for a sale ranging from $ 800,000 to $ 1 million and $ 200,000.
2. A manuscript on the book "Adam Smith" "Nature and causes of the wealth of nations"
Selling price: $ 1 million and $ 150.2 thousand
– Christie's sold a manuscript dealing with the book of the father of modern economics Adam Smith on the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, first published in 1776 at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and which constitutes a important work on the classical economy.
1. "Birds of America" for "James Audubon"
Selling price: 9 million and 650 thousand dollars
– Christie's should sell the book between $ 8 and $ 12 million because it is a rare work for the American bird world, Audubon.
– The book was first published between 1827 and 1838, when Audubon accurately described and sketched the world of North American birds and their natural habitat.
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