2."About Fruit Trees" by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau
A treatise on fruit trees by the French physicist, chemist, agronomist, member of the Academy of Sciences Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782). The book collects and summarizes his almost thirty years of observations and experiments with fruit trees. Superbly designed two-volume book with illustrations by a number of well-known artists of the time, depicting 16 types of fruit trees, their fruits, leaves, seeds, fruits. This copy of the book was at one time purchased for the personal library of King Louis XV, for which it was printed in a particularly luxurious form, with a gilded cover.

3. "Geography" ("Cosmography"), Ptolemy
The rarest copy of the world's first printed atlas, printed in 1477 in Bologna, Italy, based on the maps of the ancient Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer Claudius Ptolemy of 150 BC. e. The atlas belonged to the famous British collector Lord Wardington, whose collection consisted of about 700 old books and about 60,000 maps. The first edition of "Cosmography" was the pearl of this collection, which was almost destroyed by a fire in his country house in 2004, but was saved by the efforts of the collector's relatives and neighbors. However, a year after the death of Lord Wardington, his heirs put Cosmography up for auction.

4. Bible Gutenberg
A unique copy of the Bible by pioneer printer Johannes Gutenberg, the oldest book that has come down to us, printed using a set of movable type. Namely, its 42-line version. The 42-line Bible is known among bibliophiles as the "Bible of Mazarin", named after Cardinal and First Minister of France Giulio Mazarin, in whose papers the first copy of such a Bible was first discovered in 1760. According to the Gutenberg Museum, in total, about 180 copies of the 42-line Bible were printed in the early 1450s, of which 48 have survived to this day, including 21 complete ones. The Bible sold at auction in 1987 is incomplete, containing only the first volume. The buyer was the Japanese Maruzen Corporation. This copy is currently kept at the Keio University Library.