Rare Book Seller Reveals Most Expensive Books of 2015

By Dianna Dilworth 

Online books retailer Abe Books has made a list of its most expensive books sold in 2015.

The site, which deals in many rare and out of print titles, sold a Natural History of Birds, a Italian work from 1765, for $191,000. This was the bookseller’s largest book sale ever.

The bookseller earned $34,245 on an 1865 print of Pangeometria by Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. In addition, a first edition copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl fetched $25,000. Follow this link to see the whole list.