Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction 45
px2 writes "I was poking around Christie's auction house after taking a look at the Apple 1 when I came across this: Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte. He's unloading everything from Galileo and Da Vinci firsts to a rotating Japanese astronomical text from 1801. I guess he didn't conjure his ideas on information design from thin air." Based on Christie's estimates, the collection of 29 artifacts could fetch in excess of two and a quarter million dollars.
Re:I wonder (Score:3, Interesting)
The online auction catalog [christies.com] is beautiful.
Christie's is conducting another interesting auction a week later: The Year of the Rabbit: The Playboy Collection. This online auction catalog [christies.com] is NSFW.
Warning: Pirated materials! (Score:5, Interesting)
I was flicking through stuff at random when I saw GALILEI, Galileo. Sidereus nuncius. Frankfurt: Poltheanus, 1610. [christies.com] which has the description:
"Pirated edition of Galileo's work containing "some of the most important discoveries in scientific literature" (PMM), published the same year as the first edition. This the the first publication of any of Galileo's works outside of Italy. ..."
Re:Warning: Pirated materials! (Score:3, Interesting)
As rabid as the industries are now, don't be so sure about that.