Most Expensive Books and Magazines Sold on eBay April 2015

At the beginning of the month we search eBay completed sales under most major collectibles categories. We then post the Top 3 eBay completed auctions that sold for the highest price for each category. This listing was one of the Top 3 sales for this collectibles category under Books, Maps and Magazines. We hope you enjoy looking at the information as much as we enjoy posting it. Please make sure you come back periodically, to see the Top collectibles that sold on eBay every month!.

#1. Top Book, Map and Magazine Sold for $45,000. on eBay

Name of Collectible: Horae B. M. V. Likely Northern Italy, early 15th Century Manuscripts
This item Sold for $45,000. (Click Image to View Auction).
eBay seller: doyleny
Description by seller: “Horae B. M. V. Likely Northern Italy, early 15th century. Miniature illuminated manuscript in Latin written on delicate uterine vellum. Old brown pigskin over boards, tooled crudely in blind with a rectangular design with crossed rules, vellum paste-down and endsheets, housed in a modern clamshell case. 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches (9.5 x 6.5 cm); 223 ff.”.

Definitely a cool collectible capturing the number one spot for the highest sold Book on eBay in the month of April 2015.

#2. Top Book, Map and Magazine Sold for $44,000. on eBay

Name of Collectible: Incunabula Bible In Latin. Single Leaf From A Paper Copy Of The 42-L
This item Sold for $44,000. (Click Image to View Auction).
eBay seller: swanngalleries
Description by seller: “Single leaf from a paper copy of the 42-line Bible, with the text of 2 Kings 21:3-23:3. Rubricated. Folio, 390×286 mm; some marginal soiling, vertical slit in blank lower inner corner repaired on verso with adhesive show-through on recto. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg & Johann Fust, circa 1450-55]”.

Here’s our number two spot for a Book that sold for the second highest price on eBay in the month of April 2015.

#3. Top Book, Map and Magazine Sold for $44,000. on eBay

Name of Collectible: The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Morm
This item Sold for $44,000. (Click Image to View Auction).
eBay seller: swanngalleries
Description by seller: “FIRST EDITION (MORMONS.) The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. 8vo, later  1/2 morocco, moderate wear at extremities; minor foxing, a few pencil notes;  early inscriptions and clippings on front flyleaves, bookplates on front pastedown, faint embossed stamp on title page. (MRS) Palmyra, NY: E.B. Grandin, 1830”.

Here’s our number three spot for a Book that sold for the third highest price on eBay in the month of April 2015.

This is definitely a very nice Collectible that brought a lot of attention and a great price. Is this your auction and prefer we remove your item? If so, send us an email here.