Over at the FINE BOOKS & COLLECTIONS website they recently reported about how, last week, at a Rare Books auction at Sotheby’s (New York), seven books that once belonged to George Washington brought a final bid of $1.2 million dollars! Up above is a photo of the book spines all together. I don’t know, I thought this was pretty interesting to see, a nice piece of history too.

The lot contained the following books:

Volume III of Oliver Goldsmith’s An History of the Earth (second edition, 1779), bearing Washington’s armorial bookplate;

Volume VII of the same, also with bookplate

Jonathan Swift’s The Beauties of Swift (1782) also bearing his engraved armorial bookplate

Volume III of Alain-Rene Le Sage’s The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane (sixth edition, [1785]) signed

Volume IV of the same, also signed

Voyages de M. de Chastellux’s dans l’Amerique septentrionale… (1786) in two volumes, signed

Joseph Priestley’s Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion…(1796), signed.