A copy of William Shakespeare's first collection of works was sold at an auction in New York for a record 9,98 million dollars (8,44 million euros).
The book was published in 1623, seven years after the death of the famous writer.
There are 235 copies of the book, but the only complete version of these manuscripts is known to be in private hands.
The edition sold on Wednesday contains all the works as in the original and was first auctioned in 2001 when it fetched $6,1 million - the previous record.
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It was sold by Mills College from Oakland, California - a private university that had owned it since the XNUMXs. The identity of the buyer was not immediately released.
Christie's auction house initially estimated the value of the collection at between four and six million dollars.
In the collected works, there are 36 texts in one place, of which 18 would not have been preserved otherwise.
Without this book, the world would not know about plays like Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar and The Tempest.
Most of the 235 copies that exist are incomplete. One, owned by the University of Oxford, was sold in 2003 for £3,5 million. Five or six complete versions are probably in private collectors.
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