Notice Every Tree.: "Sotheby's To Auction the World's Most Valuable Book"

Sotheby’s...will auction one of the finest surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book – the first book printed in what is now the United States of America.
The Congregationalist Puritans who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay in search of religious freedom quickly set about to translate and produce a version of the Book of Psalms that was a closer paraphrase of the Hebrew original than the one they had carried from England.
The first edition of the resulting Bay Psalm Book was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1640, and Sotheby’s will auction one of the 11 surviving copies
The present example comes from the collection of the Old South Church in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts – one of two remarkable copies presently in its collection – and the proceeds of the sale will benefit the church’s mission and ministry in the Greater Boston area.
No example of the Bay Psalm Book has appeared at auction since 1947, when another copy achieved a record auction price for any printed book at the time
The present example...comes to auction...with a pre-sale estimate of $15-30 million.

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