What if you had unlimited funds? A swimming pool filled with champagne? Pillows stuffed with genuine dodo down? What if you won the lottery, or an eccentric, distant and obscenely wealthy relative left you everything?

Well, for the book-lovers, AbeBooks is offering a chance to own 10 priceless and rare books including “An Atlas of England and Wales” from Christopher Saxton dated back to 1574, leading with a price tag of $750,000. The atlas was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I. Each map bears the Royal Arms as a symbol of her supervision and endorsement.

Any other treasure that you would add to your bookshelf? If you answered “Ptolemy’s first Atlas printed in Germany, from 10 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” (Cosmographia, pictured above), you’d be in for a bargain, at a cool $1,800,000.

The much waited sculpture of model Kate Moss has finally been revealed at the British Museum, in London. We have mentioned in our previous post about this 50kg (110 pound) solid gold statue, entitled Siren, would go on display in October.

Now this sculpture has been unveiled at the Museum in the exhibition Statuephilia. The museum describes Marc Quinn’s work as an “Aphrodite of our times” and the statue proudly sits alongside the statues of famous Greek beauties. It seems that sculptor Marc Quinn likes these provocative poses, for he did something similar with the Sphinx…

Valued at a whopping $2.8 million, this is the largest statue in gold since the Egyptian era.

One of the most important works by Pablo Picasso to appear on the market over the last several years will be offered by Sotheby’s in New York on the evening of November 3, 2008.

Arlequin dates to 1909, a pivotal moment in the history of modern art; just two years after Picasso completed his watershed composition, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Modeled with luminous shades of jade, rose and amber, this spectacular portrait depicts a harlequin, one of the most poignant motifs in the artist’s oeuvre.

For the last 50 years, this jewel of Picasso’s Cubist production has been a treasured possession of the Surrealist artist Enrico Donati, who died earlier this year at the age of 99. He purchased it in the 1940s directly from Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, the legendary dealer of Picasso and the Cubists.

The painting, which is expected to bring over $30 million, has been consigned by Mr. Donati’s estate. It will be seen by the public for the first time in more than 45 years when it goes on view at Sotheby’s London beginning October 3, 2008. It will then go on display at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art from 16-19 October and Sotheby’s New York from 29 October to 3 November.

Emmanuel Di-Donna, of Sotheby’s, said it was one the “greatest” Cubists to be sold on the open market. He added: “International collectors have not been presented with such a fantastic opportunity to compete for one of the great Picasso portraits since Sotheby’s sale of Dora Maar au chat.

One of the rarest and most desirable works of art from the Islamic world, a carved rock crystal ewer from the Fatimid Royal Treasury, dating to the late 10th to early 11th century AD, will be offered at the strongest sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds ever staged at Christie’s, on Tuesday 7 October 2008.

Estimated to realise in excess of £3 million ($5.3 million), this Fatimid ewer is one of only seven fully- carved known surviving examples and the first and only one to be offered on the open market.

Few objects evoke the richness of mediaeval Islamic culture as much as the small group of carved rock crystal ewers made for the court of the Fatimid rulers of Cairo in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. One of these is the treasure at the centre of this sale. It is further embellished with enamelled gold mounts, illustrated right, made in 1854, by the French silversmith Jean-Valentin Morel, who was appointed Goldsmith to Queen Victoria in 1852

This is an historic opportunity for private collectors and institutions around the world. The auction is anticipated to sport an amazing grouping of exceptional artworks ranging from diverse geographical areas, materials and time and is expected to generate over £11 million ($19 million).

Supermodel Kate Moss 1.5 million pounds worth (2.8 million dollars, 1.9 million euros) solid gold sculpture was unveiled in London on Thursday, at the Nereid Gallery of the British Museum.

The 50-kg (110-pound) magnificent statue has been created by the famous sculptor Marc Quinn, creator of Alison Lapper Pregnant, which appeared on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth. The sculpture of the English artist, who was born without arms, appeared on the plinth for 20 months.

It is not the first time Quinn has featured Moss in his work. His 2006 sculpture, Sphinx, featured the supermodel in an eye-watering yoga position, with her ankles behind her ears.

“I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment, but even Kate Moss doesn”t live up to the image”.

The London born artists creation is the world’s largest gold statue built since the time of ancient Egypt.

Lucian Freud is universally acclaimed as Britain’s most famous and expensive living artist.

A Freud painting when it goes on the market is now guaranteed a seven figure reserve price and in May, the portrait “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” sold to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for $33 million, setting a new world record for a living artist !

However, the 85-year-old artist was recently informed that one of his subjects, Bernard Breslauer, a famous New York antiques book dealer - who once bought a Gutenberg Bible - had wrecked his portrait.