The fifth-highest record price for the sale of any book (not printed) was the $30,802,500 paid by [[Bill Gates]] for the leather-bound notebook of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, known as the Codex Leicester (or sometimes the Codex Hammer). That auction was on November 11, 1994 in [[New York City]], at Christie's. | The fifth-highest record price for the sale of any book (not printed) was the $30,802,500 paid by [[Bill Gates]] for the leather-bound notebook of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, known as the Codex Leicester (or sometimes the Codex Hammer). That auction was on November 11, 1994 in [[New York City]], at Christie's. |