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The oversize book, with 435 hand-colored prints, was first bought by an early paleobotanist, Henry Witham.

The earliest records of the painting indicate it was painted in the 1530s and was first bought by Antonio and Cesare Averoldi.

Here has its roots in Navteq, one of the early online mapping companies, which was first bought by Nokia and later acquired by a consortium of Volkswagen, BMW, and Daimler (the multibillion-dollar price tag may have been too high for any single carmaker to stomach).

Evans's manuscript was first bought by Heinemann, part of the Random House conglomerate, who despite describing it in their blurb as 'a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust', opted to pulp it, apparently after receiving threats of writs from the already discredited Irving.

The painting was first bought by the editor of the Illustrated London News, who gave engravings away with the Christmas issue, and then by a soap baron, who added the caption Bubbles, and a bar of Pears soap at the child's feet.

It was first bought first by Apple, then Pearson, then Vista Equity Partners.

Most of the guns are first bought in other states.

The vehicle shall be equipped with those tires by the manufacturer or by the first purchaser when the vehicle is first bought in good faith other than for resale.

A source close to the culture secretary said: "It is not surprising that London houses go up in value well over a decade after they are first bought.

They were first bought by a Russian-Cypriot conglomerate and then acquired by the Slovenia-based Mapi group.

For example, 60percentt of all guns recovered by Chicago police, according to a city report, were first bought in states like Mississippi and Indiana, which have looser gun laws.