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A previously unknown first edition copy of Nicolas Copernicus’ landmark scientific text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), has sold at auction for £277,200 ($391,767).

Michael Jordan was unquestionably a once in a lifetime athlete. His outrageous gravity-defying achievements on the basketball court helped him rewrite the rules of athletic merchandise and now he is creating his own new reality on the auction block.

The only remaining bottle of the world’s oldest cognac goes to auction next week, and will almost certainly set a new record. The 258-year-old Gautier cognac was distilled during the reign of Louis XV, almost three decades before the French Revolution.

A sibling of the first Rolex Submariner watch worn in the 007 thriller films is being auctioned by Sotheby's. The "James Bond" Rolex Submariner Reference 6538 is not only the same model as that first worn by actor Sean Connery in Dr No, it's also a much sought after collectible in its own right.

The Goldtop 1957 Gibson Les Paul​ guitar which Duane Allman used to record "Layla" alongside Eric Clapton, has sold for US$1.25 million at auction, becoming only the seventh guitar in history to sell for more than US$1,000,000.

The month of July, 2019 will be a bumper one for the number of landmark scientific artifacts heading for auction. Three Christie's auctions and a Sotheby's auction have a stellar array of landmark scientific items, some of them estimated to sell for quite affordable amounts.

The only bits of the Moon available for private sale sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York today for US$855,000. The three small shards of lunar rock were a gift to the widow of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the “Chief Designer” and director of the Soviet space program.

2017 was a spectacular year for the auction of historical and storied objects. The world's most valuable painting, gemstone, earrings, wristwatch and religious document changed hands, but as usual scant regard was paid to the landmark scientific texts which underpin mankind's understanding.

The technology and science history auction year drew to a close last week with major auctions in London and New York by Christies and Sotheby's. Both auctions contained some important and spectacular specimens of mankind's most important discoveries.

The US$7.5 million sale of Michael​ Schumacher's 2001 Ferrari F1 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction could have ramifications for the automotive auction industry

Michael Schumacher's 2001 Championship-winning Ferrari F1 car will go under the auctioneer's hammer in New York on November 16. The F1 racing car won two Grands Prix and clinched the world drivers and constructors titles, but remarkably, it will sell at a Sotheby's contemporary art auction.

An Italian movie poster for the 1942 movie Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sold for $478,000 on Saturday evening, becoming the (equal) second-most valuable movie poster ever sold at auction.