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February 22, 2005: CNN Reports on the Computer Book Sale at Christie's
"The oldest of the 1,000 or so items gathered into 255 sale lots is a 1613 edition of a treatise by the Italian Lorenzo Pignoria on slavery in Roman times which includes an illustration of a Roman table abacus, or reckoning table."
