The book in which Shakespeare’s plays were printed, sold for $ 2.5 million

At the auction of valuable books by the auction house Sothebys, the book called The First Folio, in which William Shakespeare’s plays were printed in bulk for the first time, was sold for 2 million 470 thousand dollars.

The book ‘The First Folio’, a collective edition of Shakespeare’s plays, which was offered for sale by a prominent collector at the auction of valuable books and documents, has found buyers for 2 million 470 thousand dollars today. Among other valuable documents auctioned, a previously unregistered copy of the official Massachusetts state edition of the Declaration of Independence was sold for $ 2 million 228 thousand, which will be considered a record.

The valuable document dated 1788, which shows that the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights were approved by the state of Virginia, exceeded the price of Shakespeare’s book and was sold for 3 million 75 thousand dollars. It was stated that there were 3 of similar documents on Earth.

Other valuable books and documents on sale at the auction included the 859 edition of Charles Darwin’s famous book The Origin of Species and the 1813 edition of Jane Austen’s book Love and Pride.