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The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
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Nordisk familjebok third edition 26 volumes, second printing, including not so few coloured posters (like national maps, city maps a poster of all the flags of the world etc) and a huge number of full page black and white portraits. These The additional pages are not enumerated. 1942–1944.
Printed and bound dozens of books for the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and about 400 volumes for the American Philosophical Society Robert Aitken (publisher) 1734–1802 Philadelphia printer and the first to publish an English language Bible in the U.S.
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
17th-century non-fiction books (6 C) 17th-century novels (19 C) P. 17th-century poetry books (3 C, 4 P) Printing companies established in the 17th century (2 P)
The book was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1791 by the firm of James & Johnson. [1] The book's full title is Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the ...
Published 1753 Journal of the Ship London, Captain Walter Hues, along the North Coast of Magindanao, October 1764 [20] Alexander Dalrymple: 1764 Published 1781 Journal of the Schooner Cuddalore through the Strait of Sapy, and on the South Coast of Man[-]e[-]rye, in February, March, and April 1761 [20] Alexander Dalrymple: 1761 Published 1793