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eBay
Antiquarian & Collectible Top 5
August 2010

1507 BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED AND ILLUMINATED ON VELLUM
#1 $20,000.00 1655 Original DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA QUIXOTE RARE
#2 $11,600.00
#3 $8,990.00 1475 CICERO, Epistolae ad Familiares, INCUNABULA
#4 $8,500.00 Run to Daylight: signed by Vince Lombardi First Edition
#5 $7,700.00 Shakespeare SECOND FOLIO 1632 Romeo and Juliet 4 Plays

#1
Don Quijote de la Mancha

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
290407604823

The Spanish seller listed this 1655 work with little description.

#2
Book of Hours
1507
230499166264

Described as an "extremely scarce post-incunabula edition of a wonderful Parisian Book of Hours," the auction attracted 34 bids and brought the Italian seller $11,600.

#3
Epistolae ad Familiares
Marcus Tullio Cicero
200502909108

Listed by a US seller, the book sold for $8,990 after 37 bids.

#4
Run to Daylight
Vince Lombardi
270618611008

A signed 1st edition of Lombardi's 1963 book was listed in very good condition in a near fine dust jacket.

#5
[Four plays plus the preface from William Shakespeare's Second Folio]
William Shakespeare
360214598849

Listed by a US seller, the 1632 volume sold for $7,700.

 

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