Bibliophilia

If you’re considering collecting books or have just started your collection you might well find this video very informative. "Phil Pirages, proprietor of Phillip J. Pirages Fine Book and Manuscripts, examines book collecting, how and why people collect, why they should collect books, and the role of the bookseller in collaborating with collectors, using examples from the current Pirages inventory to illustrate the special pleasures derived from an appreciation of a book's binding, printing, illustration, and provenance.

Does bibliophilia affect a big part of your life? Well if it does; that’s great because loving and collecting books is nothing to be ashamed of - in fact, if you are lucky enough to find one of the rarer books you could become filthy rich overnight. Below is a list of the most expensive books in the world. However, there are thousands of others books and manuscripts that are collectables worth tens of thousands of dollars so don’t be discouraged that the top 10 are already taken.

Here is the list:

The First Book of Urizen, William Blake
Value: $2.5 Million

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
Value: $3.98 Million

Geographia Cosmographia, Claudius Ptolemy
Value: $4 Million

Traité des arbres fruitiers [Treatise on Fruit Trees] by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau
Illustrated by Pierre Antoine Poiteau and Pierre Jean François Turpin
Value: $4.5 Million

The Gutenberg Bible
Value: $4.9 Million

First Folio, William Shakespeare
Value: $6 Million

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Value: $7.5 Million