http://en.wordpress.com/tag/birds-of-american/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "birds-of-american" Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:06 +0000 http://en.wordpress.com/tags/ en http://lawlibrarybarrister.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/celebrate-world-book-day/ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:56:52 +0000 Lisa Smith-Butler http://lawlibrarybarrister.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/celebrate-world-book-day/ Today is World Book Day!  Stop by your local library or bookstore, surf  Amazon or Barnes & Noble online for your Kindle or Nook, then browse and enjoy the pleasures of reading in either print or electronic format.    To celebrate World Book Day, the UK Telegraph published an article, The World’s Most Valuable Books , providing a list of books whose publication dates range from the 1350s – 1865.  Titles listed include a Gutenberg Bible, Shakespearan Folio, and several other items.  John James Audubon’s Birds of America sold for $10.3m in 2010 while a 1450-1455 Gutenberg Bible sold for $4.9m in 1987.  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was auctioned for $7m in 1998 while a  1623 first folio of Shakespeare went for $5.6m in 2001.  Ptolemy’s Geographia-Cosmographia fetched $3.5m in 2006.  The  1776 American Declaration of Independence sold for $2.2m in 1991.  So celebrate World Book Day today and hold onto some of your print books.  Your future progeny might some day find them to be quite valuable!

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