151,000 Dollars For Historic Psalm' Book
A copy of the Bay Psalm Book, first book published in the Ameri-can-colonies and printed in 1640 by Stephen Daye, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently brought 151,000 dollars at an auction in New York City. This is believed to be the highest price ever paid for a book sold at auction. The previous “high” was 106,000 dollars for a copy, of the Gutenberg Bible, bought in 1926, by Dr A. S. W. Rosentach, noted Philadelphia rare book collector, who also bought the Bay Psalm Book. No copy of this had been sold at auction in the last sixty years. Only eleven copies of the work are known to exist. One is at the New York Public Library and others are owned by the Harvard College Library, the Boston Public Library, and Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 8, 19 December 1947, Page 2
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