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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.
Collection of 477 drawings commissioned by William Farquhar: 19th century [1] 9: A wooden hearse: Used for the funeral of Chinese philanthropist Tan Jiak Kim: 1917 [1] 10: Embroidered Chinese coffin cover: One of the largest of its kind in existence in Singapore: unknown [1] 11: A glove puppet stage: Belonging to the Fujian puppet troupe, Xin ...
The drawings was designated by the National Museum of Singapore as one of 11 "national treasures" in January 2006. [2] As at 2011, the collection was believed to be worth at least $11 million. In 2011, 70 works from the collection were placed on permanent display in the Goh Seng Choo Gallery of the museum, named for Goh's father. [3]
2.2.4.1 The Menil Collection and 13th-century frescoes. ... the founder of the Menil Collection, found the three 13th-century Byzantine frescoes for sale in 1983, by ...
Singapore was known in the 13th to 14th century as Temasek, with its name being changed to Singapura perhaps towards the end of 14th century by Sang Nila Utama, the founder of Kingdom of Singapura. The island was alternately claimed during this period by the Siamese and the Javanese .
A rare 13th-century Bible will return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written, thanks to the help of The Independent.. In an early Christmas present ...
Singapore-Kranji Railway officially opened to the public. [25] 5 November: Sir Frank Swettenham was appointed as the Governor of the Straits Settlements. 1904: 16 April: Sir John Anderson was appointed as the Governor of the Straits Settlements. 1905: 1 June: Singapore change its time zone to GMT+07:00 from the original GMT+6hr 55m 25s. 1906: ...
In the 13th century there was a fashion for the tops of elite tombs to have an enamel and metal panel with an effigy of the deceased, which was often in relief. Two children of Saint Louis IX (1214–1270) who died young had such tombs in Royaumont Abbey outside Paris (now in the Basilica of Saint-Denis ), [ 21 ] and a number of tombs of ...