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eBay
Antiquarian & Collectible Top 5
May 2007

#1 $85,000.00 VERY RARE 1830 FIRST EDITION BOOK OF MORMAN ANTIQUE!
#2 $29,254.64 Rare 1842 Robert's Holy Land & Egypt Large Folio 3 Vol.
#3 $21,500.00 15TH CENTURY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS /BRABANT
#4 $15,000.00 Chapman Homer Iliad 1611 1st Ed 17th Century Sheepskin
#5 tie $12,000.00 1640 FOLIO HOLY BIBLE: FINAL 59 LINE KING JAMES VERSION
#5 tie $12,000.00 1494, 1498, 1502/3 3 in 1 RARE WORKS / PAULUS VENETUS

*Non-registered buyer so sale not completed and final value not validated.

#1
Book of Mormon
1830

Listed by a seller in Provo, Utah in a 5-day auction with 12 photos, the "Actual first edition 1830 Book of Mormon in its original binding" sold after 2 bids for $85,000 to a buyer with 2 feedbacks. As of 3 months after the sale, neither buyer nor seller had left feedback for the other. The item was for pick-up only and was described as in good condition with no markings and 3 missing pages. Payment was specified as by wire transfer fund or cashiers check when picking up the book. A $500 deposit by PayPal was required immediately upon winning.

#2
Holy Land & Egypt
David Roberts

The 3-volume "large folio leather bound books" date from the 1840s and have "colored/tinted plates, all drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts." Bound in Moroccan leather with gilt page edges, the condition is described as "good, considering the age; restorable." 2 volumes have a detached front covers. The 10-day auction with app. 82 photos was listed by a US seller. It attracted 36 bids and closed at $29,254.64.

#3
["Book of Hours, Use of Windesheim Illuminated Manuscript in Latin on Parchment Belgium, Brabant / Liege, c. 1450"]

Called "Very extraordinary and rare," the c1450 book of hours originated in the eastern Netherlands and contains 8 "illuminated historiated initials," as well as other illumination. Bound in "nineteenth-century red morocco," the book is "handwritten and handpainted on real vellum." The US seller listed it in a 10-day auction with 26 photos. Payment was limited to bank cashier's check or money order with shipment after payment cleared. After 33 bids, the auction ended at $21,500.

#4
The Illiads of Homer, Prince of Poets. Never Before In Any Languag Truly Translated, with a Comment Uppon Some of his Chiefe Places; Donne According to the Greeke by Geo: Chapman

The first issue, first edition of Chapman's Homer was listed by a Canadian seller in a 7-day auction with app. 45 photos. It sold as a BIN for $15,000. Published in 1611, the folio includes "the unsigned sheet of sonnets ... of which previously only six copies had been traced." The seller cited Pforzheimer as the source for the number of extant copies containing the sonnet. Calling the title "strictly contemporary, early 17th century, English sheepskin binding, which is in completely original …condition," the seller noted strong hinges.

#5 tie
Bible
Pulpit Folio
King James Version
59 Line Ed.
1639

Pauli Veneti Logica
1498
Expositio in libros Posteriorum Aristotelis
1494 1502 / 1503
Summa philosophie naturalis magistri Pauli veneti novi / ter recognita…
1502/03

The 2-way tie at #5 features a 1639 Bible and a late 15th century set of three works in 1 volume. Featured in 12 photos, the pulpit folio Bible was listed by a US seller in a 10-day auction. It was recently rebound in full speckled calf. In a detailed description, the seller notes it is 16.5" talk and 4.75" thick. Shipping is set at $65 and is by Express Mail for overnight delivery.

The 3 volumes-in-1 set dates from around 1500. A UK seller listed it in a 7-day auction with 37 photos. Called a "very rare and important work," the volume is 340 mm long and 70 mm thick. It attracted 9 bids and sold for $12,000.

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