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November 09, 2006: Twelve-Million-Dollar Bible Collection on Exhibit in Hagerstown, Maryland
"But Albert (Gene S. Albert, Jr), who's been collecting for 25 years, has other rarities for sale at www.christianheritagemuseum.com. They include a single page of a 1454 Gutenberg Bible priced at $20,000; a 1685 second edition of John Eliot's Algonquin Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in America, for $175,000; and two handwritten sermon notes by 19th-century English evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon, marked down from $595 to $275 each."
