List of most expensive books and manuscripts
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List of most expensive books and manuscripts

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Adjusted price (in millions)	Original price (in millions)	Title	Author	Year	Date of sale	Image	Refs

$35.8	$35.0	Book of Mormon Printer's Manuscript	Joseph Smith	1830	September 2017	-

$52.1	$30.8	Codex Leicester Original and only copy of the notebook.	Leonardo da Vinci	1500s	November 1994	-

$25.7	$21.3	Magna Carta Original exemplar	–	1297	December 2007	-

$15.6	$14.3	St Cuthbert Gospel	Unknown	7th century	April 2012	-

$15.3	$14.2	Bay Psalm Book First book printed in what is now the United States.	–	1640	November 2013	-

$20.2	$13.4	Rothschild Prayerbook (a.k.a. Rothschild Hours)	–	c. 1500-20	July 1999	-

$29.4	$11.7	Gospels of Henry the Lion Original and only copy	Order of Saint Benedict	1175	December 1983	-

$13.2	$11.5	The Birds of America One of 119 complete copies known to exist.	John James Audubon	1827–1838	December 2010	-

$12.8	$8.8	The Birds of America One of 119 complete copies known to exist.	John James Audubon	1827–1838	2000	-

$10.7	$9.8	Acts of Congress George Washington's personal copy with notes in his hand.	1789	June 2012

$9.8	$9.3	Babylonian Talmud One of 14 complete sets printed by Daniel Bomberg known to exist.	1519-1523	December 2015	Bomberg Talmud

$8.6	$7.9	The Birds of America One of 119 complete copies known to exist.	John James Audubon	1827–1838	January 2012	-

$11.5	$7.5	The Canterbury Tales First printed edition	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478	1998

$8.6	$6.1	Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies (a.k.a. First Folio)	William Shakespeare	1623	2001	-

$11.6	$5.0	Les Liliacées	Pierre-Joseph Redouté	1802	1985	-

$10.8	$4.9	Gutenberg Bible	–	1450–1455	1987	-

$5.6	$4.5	Traité des Arbres Fruitiers	Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau	1768	2006	-

$4.9	$4.3	Rules of basketball Original document written by James Naismith.	James Naismith	1892	December 2010

$4.7	$3.9	The Tales of Beedle the Bard	J. K. Rowling	unknown	December 2007

$4.3	$3.5	Geographia Cosmographia	Claudius Ptolemy	1477	October 2006	La Cosmographie de Claude Ptolemée.djvu

$3.4	$3.2	Action Comics 1	Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster	1938	August 2014

$2.9	$2.5	The Gospels of Queen Theutberga	(Probable) writer at the Benedictine abbey at Metz or Murbach	c.825–850	15 July 2015

$3.8	$2.5	The First Book of Urizen	William Blake	1794	April 1999	-

$2.9	$2.5	Complete set of folio bird books (40 volumes)	John Gould	1800s	April 2008	-

$5.3	$2.4	Biblia pauperum (The Gotha-Doheny Copy)	–	1460–1470	22 October 1987	-

$3.1	$2.4	Doria Atlas	–	1570-1620	2005

$4.0	$2.2	United States Declaration of Independence Original signed manuscript.	–	1776	1991	-

$2.9	$1.9	De revolutionibus orbium coelestium	Nicolaus Copernicus	1543	1998	Nicolai Copernici torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.djvu

$3.0	$1.5	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	1605–1615	1989	-

$2.3	$1.5	De humani corporis fabrica	Andreas Vesalius	1543	1998	-

$2.2	$1.4	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	1998	-

$2.5	$1.3	The Federalist	Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison	1788	1990	-

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The original manuscript of the rules of basketball was one of the most expensive manuscript.

final_sentence: The original manuscript of the rules of basketball was one of the most expensive manuscript.