Auction to sell the most expensive book in history at $ 30 million

Sotheby's auction house said today it plans to offer one of the 11 remaining copies of the first book printed in
  America at auction

 Public later this year, is expected to fetch up to $ 30 million, making it the most expensive book in history. According to the Reuters news agency.

The book was printed (Psalms Gulf) The Bay Psalm in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church sells

 Ancient Old South Church in Boston this book to finance some repairs and renovations of the building and support قساوستها.

The church has a second copy of the book while owns the universities of Harvard and Yale and other institutions other copies.

This is the first copy of the book offered for sale since 1947 when he scored a record price for books amounted to 151 thousand dollars. The estimated

 Sotheby's copy of the book to be sold at between 15 million and $ 30 million in Mzadeha being built in New York on 26 November.

He described David ريدين head of Sotheby's books in this book as a "mythic rare" saying that he "embodies the values ​​that have arisen

 The nation is political freedom and religious freedom. "

It is scheduled to display the book at Sotheby's in New York from Friday through Sunday before being presented in Philadelphia and Chicago

 , Los Angeles and Dallas in the coming months

 

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