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Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction

Posted by kdawson on from the galileo-meets-picasso dept.

px2 writes "I was poking around Christie's auction house after taking a look at the Apple 1 when I came across this: Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte. He's unloading everything from Galileo and Da Vinci firsts to a rotating Japanese astronomical text from 1801. I guess he didn't conjure his ideas on information design from thin air." Based on Christie's estimates, the collection of 29 artifacts could fetch in excess of two and a quarter million dollars.

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  1. I wonder by MoarInternets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the auction catalog will be up to his standards!

  2. Re:Warning: Pirated materials! by east+coast · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure the copyright has expired on this work. You're safe, trust me.

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