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Antiquarian & Collectible Top 5
February 2009

Note: The Antiquarian & Collectible Top 5 is incomplete this month. When data was gathered for the 1st part of the month, the familiar seller Aegard was in positions #1, #2, #3, and #5. Now all those auctions have been removed and Aegard is no longer a registered user. Those facts came to light later in the month and more auctions were gathered for the list. There's no way to know if earlier February sales surpassed #2 through 5 on the Top 10 list. #1, though, is in the right position as the only remaining auction of the original February Top 5. For more discussion of this matter, see the second paragraph on this page.

#1 $11,300.00 The Hobbit 1st Edition/1st Imp w/DJ *Stunning Rarity*
#2 $8,500.00 HELMUT NEWTON SUMO BOOK IN BOX
#3 $7,500.00 1612 GALILEO GALILEI Discorso PHYSICS Archimedes 1ST ED
#4 $6,425.00* NY & Harlem Railroad Co HANDWRITTEN Ledger 1831-1837
#5 $5,249.00 1483 CHRONICLE Eusebius Chronicon RATDOLT INCUNABULA

*Buyer is NARU (not a registered user) so the final value is not validated.

#1
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
170299074188

A UK seller tops the Antiquarian & Collectible list with a 1st edition/1st issue of The Hobbit. It's described as "a rare highly sought after un-restored copy of one of the finest children's books of the last 100 years." It sold after 17 bids.

#2
Helmut Newton: Sumo
Helmut Newton
170300589122

#3302 of 10,000 copies, this copy has been stored since it was received and is described as in mint condition. The US seller saw it sell for $8,500.

#3
Discorso Al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II
1612
Galileo Galilei
300289109395

Calling it a "rare first edition of Galileo's important and controversial treatise on hydorstatics ...," the U.S. seller noted the "Galileo's championing of the Copernican system was controversial within his lifetime" and he later recanted "his heliocentrism." It received 22 bids. The same seller sold #5.

#4*
Ledger
Handwritten
New York & Harlem Railroad
1831-1837
390029674406

NARU

#5
Chronicon
Eusebius Caesariensis
[1483]
300293790899

Listed by the US seller of #3, the 2nd edition is described as an "elegantly printed and scarce incunable edition of an important early chronicle produced by one of the most famous early printers ...."

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