World's Most Valuable Books & Manuscripts
1. The Codex Leicester by Leonardo Da Vinci Regarded as one of the most expensive illustrated manuscripts, the Codex is a synthesis of Leonardo's views on nature, astronomy, meteorology. He even predicted the invention of the submarine in the manuscript. It was sold to Bill Gates in 1994 for a whopping $30,802,500. 2. The Birds of America by John Audubon Printed between 1827 & 1838, it contains 435 life-size watercolors of North American birds, reproduced from hand-engraved plates, and is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration. In 2018, a first edition of the book was sold for $9.65 million at an auction in New York. 3.The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein Einstein originally wrote the Theory of Relativity in 1905, but he rewrote it in 1943 in order to raise funds for the American war effort during WWII. In 1944, Kansas City Life Insurance Company exchanged a $6.5 million cheque for the manuscript. 4. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by S
