Most expensive book - The highest price paid for any book is £8.14 million for the long-lost manuscript The Gospels of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony at Sotheby's of London, United Kingdom on 6 Dec 1983. The 226-leaf book, which measures 13 1/2 x 10 in, was illuminated by the Benedictine monk Herimann at Helmarshausen Abbey C. 1170 and bought by Hans Kraus for the west German Hermann Abs consortium. This is one of the 41 full-page miniature illustrations and shows the Coronation of Henry and Matilda by God. (Photo: Sotheby's)
