List of the 10 most expensive books that were sold at auction in 2006:
10-Geography (Geographia), by Strabo, published in Rome in 1469. Price: $470,640.
9–Cosmography (Cosmographia), by Ptolemy, published in Ulm in 1486. Price: $553,520.
8–Geographical Works of Ptolemy (In hoc opera haec continentur geographiae cl. Ptolemaei…), by Ptolemy, published in Rome in 1507. Price: $636,000.
7–A Season in Hell (Une saison en enfer), by Arthur Rimbaud, published in Brussels in 1873. French poetry. Signed copy. Price: $644,000.
6–Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales, by William Bland, published in Sydney between 1825 and 1831. Price: $689,000.
5–Institutes of the Christian Religion (Christianae religionis institutio), by John Calvin, published in Bale in 1536. Price: $720,000.
4–Antiquities of the Russian State (Drevnosti Rossiskago Gosudarstva), by Feodor Grigoriev Solntsev and F. Dreger, published in Moscow in 1849. Price: $748,000.
3–Atlas, by Gerard Mercator, printed in Duisburg in 1595. Price: $781,000.
2–Cosmography (Cosmographia), by Ptomely, printed in Bologna in 1477. Price: $4 million.
1–Comedies, Histories & Tragedies (aka First Folio), by William Shakespeare, printed in London in 1623. Considered by many to be the most important book of English literature. Price: $5.1 million.
Source: Forbes, Wikipedia
