Luxury

15 Most Expensive Purchases Of Billionaires

1. BOOK

Book Leicester Code

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The past decade has seen a sharp decline in the number of books read in the paper edition. It’s rather annoying, because the book on the monitor screen does not give the same sensations as a real hard cover or a soft cover in the hands.

Throughout the history of human civilization, hundreds of people have written millions of books on various topics of artistic and scientific literature, such as biology, religion, philosophy, history, economics, mythology and science.

Leonardo da Vinci is considered one of the greatest minds in history, who wrote several books, and several of them, fortunately, could live up to our time. One of his manuscripts was a scientific journal known as the «Leicester Code». It is considered the most valuable and expensive book for which, the wealthiest person on the planet, Bill Gates, paid $ 30.8 million.