"Robert and Michelle Wilhelm of Rhinecliff, N.Y., and their daughter Celeste Wilhelm, gave their collection of Greek and Roman history, language and literature, including new volumes and rare books from the 18th and 19th centuries, to the college late this summer. The books are now being catalogued and assessed by St. Michael’s Library Director John Payne, Associate Director Laura Crain and Archivist Elizabeth Scott."
"If you have any resemblance to bibliokleptomaniac Stephen Blumberg, you have an intense love for books. Blumberg’s obsession led him to multiple arrests in the 1980s and early ’90s for his theft of over 20,000 rare books from over 140 universities in 45 states and Canada, and to custom-build 86 bookshelves that extended over windows and into the backs of closets to house his collection."
"While technology can make knowledge available at the click of a button, healthy reading habits are also equally important, Mrs Pratibha Patil said while addressing a meeting celebrating the 150th year celebration of Uttarpara Jaikrishna Public Library."
"His name may raise a few eyebrows as people try to grasp where in the world kids named “Winkie” come from. Though Winkie Pratney may not be a house-hold name in much of Smith County, he is certainly known among a select group of prominent ministers with international influences."
"PARIS, France - Pierre Beres, one of France's greatest private collectors of manuscripts and rare editions, has died at the age of 95, his family said Wednesday."
"The Paris-based collector, who three years ago on retiring sold 12,000 volumes from his collection, died on Monday."
"The exhibit is titled 'Lighting the Way: the Life and Legacy of William Rotch Jr.' Its display cases feature artifacts belonging to Rotch and his family. Of particular interest is a 16th-century atlas of world cities which suggests that Rotch had an interest in rare books. Also of interest is a map showing where Rotch's grandfather purchased 10 waterfront acres in the community then known as Bedford Village in 1765."
"While independent bookstores nationwide struggle as they compete against national chains such as Barnes & Noble, discounters such as Wal-mart and Internet booksellers like Amazon, veteran booksellers like Gordon have survived and even thrived in Asheville. In the town that gave birth to literary legends such as Thomas Wolfe and Charles Frazier, readers like to buy books locally, Gordon said."
"Some 300 rare books confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein's regime have been secretly spirited into Israel, an Israeli newspaper says."
"The haul worth more than £200,000 was discovered by workmen after they hacked their way through an overgrown garden to clear the house in New Malden, Surrey."
"For over 25 years, O'Dell, who died in March 2007 at age 53, was the proprietor of Chapel Hill Rare Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Considered one of the preeminent Civil War dealers in the country, O'Dell was also well known as a collector. "
"The room contains hundreds of art books collected by John Ringling. After his death in 1936, every item in his residence, Cà d'Zan, was inventoried and cataloged, "every room, every shelf, so you know what book was on which shelf in what room," said Ringling librarian Linda McKee."
"These days Bond is about as collectable as you can get. Here, I give an indication of what a fine copy in its original dust jacket would fetch today. The jacket is all-important. That of Casino Royale is legendarily rare, and five years ago one fetched more than £13,000 at auction; that's just the jacket - there was no accompanying book. Caveat emptor, however: in the jargon of the book-collecting world, this was a 'first state' jacket. A 'second state' jacket, carrying a quote from a Sunday newspaper review on the front inside flap, sold in the same year for just £600. "
"The highest price paid for a printed book was $8.8 million for John James Audubon's Birds of America, sold by Christie's in 2000. The priciest manuscript or hand-printed book was Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester, bought by Microsoft's Bill Gates for $30.8 million in 1994."
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"In the six years since his death, Lenkiewicz's estate has been gradually sold off to the tune of more than £5m. While sales of his enormous collections of books at Sotheby's – the occult and witchcraft were among his favourite subjects – account for about £1.6m of the total, the rest of the money has been generated through sales of his paintings. "
"Among the books damaged that day was a Bible printed by John Baskett, a printer to King George III. Mr. Luckett enlisted Maggs Bros, one of the world’s largest sellers of rare books and manuscripts, to find replacements for the irrevocably damaged books. The replacement Bible he received was not at all what he expected."
"Situated in the heart of Ireland's capital city, the Chester Beatty Library is an art museum and library which houses the great collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). The Library's exhibitions open a window on the artistic treasures of the great cultures and religions of the world. Its rich collection from countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe offers visitors a visual feast. "
"In 2004, he returned to his fifth floor Kabul apartment to find his beloved library - which had over 2,000 rare books in Pashto and Dari - riddled with bullet-marks."
"By the time the doors opened at 9:30 a.m., the line up of bookworms snaked around the school building. Thousands of people are expected to come through the doors during the four-day sale, which has a reputation for quality reading material at bargain prices. In its 44th year, the event is expected to raise about $25,000 for the symphony orchestra. "
"I'm cataloguing the books I bought in Hay-on-Wye, which we visited at the midpoint of a round-the-world trip. There are 27 to enter on the database. Fifteen are first editions. Only on our return, when I open the sack of 50 books (23 are my partner's) shipped from the Welsh border town, do I realise I have gained possession of so many gems in that day-and-a-half raid on the famed 'town of books'."
"Hadley got the job, and created a magnificent library for Vincent Astor’s rare books, which until that point had been in storage. The library he created featured brass-trimmed, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and red lacquered walls whose rich color required ten coats of paint. The room became a benchmark of Hadley’s career."
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"The auction is to be composed of two separate sections, with Rado's collection featured in the first part while the second half is to feature around 100 paintings from the 19th century to the present day. A particularly interesting aspect is that the list of items to be auctioned includes a full set of antique books printed by the first printing press in İstanbul, established by Hungarian-born Ottoman intellectual İbrahim Mütefferika in December 1727."
"Owners of rare books from the era when Vietnam was part of French Indochina were honored Wednesday at the fifth Ho Chi Minh City Book Fair. "
"An accomplished and renowned collector, Fliegelman specialized in "association copies." These books have a great, sometimes huge, added value largely because of who owned them. In this case, some of Fliegelman's books once belonged to Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Washington, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster and the Empress of Russia."
"The Lincoln Book Bindery has been crafting hard cover books for over 50 years. Its small operation is something rare and special. And it's right here in Urbana."
"Chris Hohn has been sewing pages and binding books for 35 years. And now is a skilled craftsman. "
"Anthony Taussig stopped practicing law because he said it was nothing like the lawyer dramas he saw on television. However, his former job led him to collecting law books, and he now has the largest private collection of rare English law texts in the world."
"As a collector of rare books and first editions, defense attorney Bob Van Norman's tastes run more to mysteries, legal works and infamous killings, but once bitten, the lure of a rare book is hard to resist. So taunting, in fact, that Van Norman paid $4,250 for a flimsy, soft-covered book at the Black Hills Stock Show Foundation's Old West Collectibles Auction on Saturday, Feb. 2."
"'The main thing we did was build the library/music room on the top floor, and the many, many bookshelves,'Mr. Moser said. 'But nothing terribly dramatic.'"
"'The main thing we did was build the library/music room on the top floor, and the many, many bookshelves,'Mr. Moser said. 'But nothing terribly dramatic.'"
"Late last summer he donated his 4,730-tome collection to the University of B.C., making it the owner of the largest collection of golf books in the academic library world, says Ralph Stanton, head of rare books and special collections for UBC."
"The 76-year-old ear specialist has spent the last 40 years collecting medical artifacts dating from the first century A.D. to today. The waiting room, offices and even a treatment area are covered with displays of amputation saws, scalpels from antiquity forward, early hearing aids, medicine vials of all descriptions and quackery objects through the ages. "
"Hanover College's Duggan Library is the recipient of a second gift of important rare books on North American and Pacific exploration by retired orthopedic surgeon and Hanover alumnus Ronald Kleopfer."
"Mosher is known for combining discriminating taste in literature (many of his offerings were pirated from England, whose copyrights couldn't be enforced here) with fine aesthetic sensibility. His books, with their fine bindings and illuminations, were relatively low-priced and accessible to the public, thanks to his avoidance of copyright expenses, Bishop explained."
"The $21.3 million price reached at auction Tuesday night was toward the bottom of the range predicted by Sotheby's. Texas tycoon Ross Perot bought the historical document 23 years ago, for just $1.5 million. That still marks a pretty impressive return for the Perot Foundation"
"There's an art to giving a book as a present. You can't just stumble into a bookstore and wander around aimlessly. (Well, that actually sounds quite pleasant, but who has time for that sort of activity this time of year?) The lazy way to handle the situation is simply to pick up a gift card, and have done with it."
"Kislak celebrated Wednesday on the eve of Thursday's exhibit opening, "Exploring the Early Americas." Kislak donated thousands of items to the Library of Congress that will be part of a high-tech interactive display in the Thomas Jefferson Building."
"Chan, founder and chief executive of the private investment company Chartwell Capital, says:"
"'The growing interest in rare books has finally hit Asia, with alternative investors seeing them as an undervalued asset class... As many factors determine the value of rare books, it is challenging to calculate its overall return as an asset class. But if we only look into the titles of auction quality, their investment returns beat other asset classes.'"
"SALT LAKE CITY – It’s a book collector’s dream: rifling through the shelves of a secondhand store and finding a valuable text for a bargain price. "
"It happened Jan. 31 to a man who plunked down $40 and took home eight books of sermons and writings from elders of a secretive and polygamous Mormon breakaway group..."
"Beyond the many independent bookstores and author events, the Pioneer Valley’s literary largess is enhanced by several other book-centered communities whose fascinating wares may be more challenging to find — and considerably more expensive to purchase."
"The University of Arizona Mineral Museum has obtained an extensive mineral and rare book collection valued at $7 million from a somewhat mysterious donor. "
"In just 20 years, Sharpe has amassed works of science, philosophy, medicine, exploration, religion, literature and mathematics, all classified as being in superb condition and worth about $25 million."
Together, they record the growth of Western civilization through everything from a Dead Sea Scroll fragment to Gone With the Wind."
"Franzheim later donated his late father's collection of rare architecture books to the University of Houston, beginning a longtime philanthropic relationship with the school."
"He also purchased a rare book in 1976 to be the university's millionth volume and established endowments for the preservation of the collection, a professorship and a fund to purchase texts in languages, literature, the arts and general humanities."
"Tran Van Luu, a farmer in Thang Loc hamlet, Ngu Loc commune, Hau Loc district in Thanh Hoa province, has over 400 ancient books of all kinds, which are the assets of many generations of his family."
"The Hanoi Publishing House has announced a campaign to collect rare books and documents about Thang Long – Hanoi as a part of a project to build a bookcase on the thousand years of the Thang Long culture. "
"Works, including books, draft documents, maps, pictures and photos about Thang Long – Hanoi, have never been widely made public or thoroughly researched."
"I took the book home and when I opened it, there on the inside cover was my mother's name and the address of our home in the Bronx, N.Y. We lived there from 1923 until the latter part of World War II."
"George Muoria, a Senior Archivist at the Kenya National Archives explains that Murumbi had left behind over 50,000 books and sheafs of official correspondence from which, the Kenya National Archives department has set up a library containing some of the 8,000 "rare books" (published before 1900 or which are not reprinted) entrusted to them upon the death of Murumbi. His passion for art and culture is traced from his Goan father who was a trader married to a Maasai woman."
"Brooks McCormick, chief executive officer of the International Harvester Co. and a longtime Crane Foundation supporter, willed his entire collection of ornithology, or the study of birds, to the nonprofit when he died last year."
"On Oct. 5, Sotheby's in New York City will auction off the collection, whose estimated value is between $1.5 million and $2 million, with all proceeds going to ICF."
"Sam Martz, 82, had his share of both in collecting books about golf."
"For 50 years, he gathered volumes the way Jack Nicklaus bagged birdies - eagerly, cleverly and, at times, greedily."
"Just when it seemed art books couldn't get any bigger or more expensive, coffee-table books priced at $1,000 and up are on the rise."
"Art-book publisher Taschen says it has five of these books on its fall list, up from one last year."
"Celebrity book-binder Bill Tito is so confident he is bringing New Zealand's heaviest book to Palmerston North, he will give $100 to anyone who comes along with a heavier one. "
"On the other hand, a few days later a man who had read my book called from California and said he had bought a book on E-bay by Clarissa M. Badger, “Floral Portraits.” He wondered if the $89 he paid was appropriate. He gasped when I told him at auction it would fetch about $2,400."
"For the last few years I have collected rare books, most concerning the history and exploration of the "Northwest Coast," a term used to identify Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska 200 years ago."
"Nothing appeared to be missing from the two-story library, a $200,000 addition to the home near McDaniel Lake where Comstock was found shot to death Tuesday."
"Today, the result of that mind-set is ensconced in a gleaming top-floor area in the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for the Book Arts in the Wimberly Library of the Florida Atlantic University Campus in Boca Raton. Partially, the Jaffe Center holds its founder's book collection - a very unusual book collection. There are around 10,000 volumes here, from a Peanuts pop-up book to one-of-a-kind books, but they are all distinguished by their status as aesthetic objects, irrespective of their actual literary content. "
"It started with the Superman costume. In 2001, Fuller French was 35 years old and already a serious collector of rare books and a casual collector of TV scripts and memorabilia. The Midland native was living in Los Angeles, and he was on the hunt for a costume from the 1950s TV Superman series."
"A rare piece of Canadian history was lost to the country yesterday after an auction in New York, where an elaborately hand-written, 385-year-old legal document - described as the contract for 'Canada's Mayflower' - was sold for $90,000 by a Canadian collector to an American antiquities dealer, who then flipped the relic to a second private buyer in the U.S."
"SALT LAKE CITY -- It's a book collector's dream -- rifling through the shelves of a secondhand store with the hope of finding a valuable volume for a bargain basement price and stumbling onto a gold mine."
"The seven miles of Antique Trail stores on Hwy 53 are celebrating summer with a Hwy. 53 Antique Trail Yard Sale."
"This is not your baby toy and used clothes yard sale."
"Ahmed Salim has developed his own archive over the last 35 years without any support from outside. It is a unique repository, containing information on Pakistan’s history, politics and socio-economic development. It caters to the needs of international and national research scholars, university students, research and professional organisations, politicians, investigative journalists and social workers."
"Cardiologist Aaron Feingold ’72 began amassing rare books and historical artifacts while in medical school. His collection grew to include hundreds of medical texts and records, World War II pharmacy coupons from the European ghettos, archeological artifacts from Egypt and 19th century Italian Hagaddahs, as well as the entire transcript, in English, of the Nuremberg trials. "
"The collection of California-based money manager Annette Campbell-White of MedVenture Associates fetched 1.3 million pounds ($2.6 million) including commissions. It had been valued at as much as 1.8 million pounds pre-commission. About 26 percent of the lots didn't sell."
"'It was eerie,' he said. 'My stomach kind of turned and I thought ‘this is my uncle’s.'"
"Steve, too, had heard from a friend who sold antique books in Sheridan that the Ricketts book would be sold at the auction."
"For book collectors, "the thrill of the chase" is much of the fun, says Annette Campbell-White. The New Zealand-born, California-based biotech venture capitalist spent more than 30 years bidding at auction and browsing bookshops to build a collection of rare first editions and other key literary works."
"A stretch of Sixth Avenue north of 110th Street was renamed Lenox Avenue in 1887 after millionaire philanthropist and book collector James Lenox. In the late 1980s, the street got another name change to recognize Malcolm X."
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"AVID book collector David Butterfield will do almost anything to get his hands on a rare classical text."
"The 21-year-old Cambridge University student wrote a letter in Danish to charm a seller in Scandinavia into selling a rare unpublished Housman letter. Now his dedication has been rewarded with an award for his impressive collection."
"First prize in the undergraduate category was awarded to John McReynolds ’09 for his collection entitled 'Travels in Poetry.' First prize in the graduate category was a tie between Diana Looser grad for her collection 'Dramatic Literature of Oceania, c.1970-Present' and Brent Morris grad for 'The Abolitionist Mind.'"
"With a focus on antiquarian books covering such events as the tulip mania of the 1630s, the stock-jobbers of London, and the speculation of the 1920s, I agree with Financial Times assessment. This collection will almost certainly be scooped up a hedge fund manager. "
"HAY-ON-WYE, Wales — Most people come to this medieval town in search of rare, collectible or bargain books, or to attend its spring festival of author events, films and concerts. But I had come to Hay for more than the literature, music and brushes with celebrity. I sought an audience with the king. "
"First prize in each category is a $250 award and a trip to New York City for Bibliography Week (January 22-26, 2008), a Mecca of sorts for organizations devoted to book collecting and book history. Winners will also receive an invitation to a special reception at one of the country's largest book collecting organizations, The Grolier Club. "
"Hundreds of volumes from the library of the late American collector Frank Streeter were on the block Monday and Tuesday at Christie's in New York. Streeter's interest in vintage literature about the exploration and mapping of the world meant that much of his collection focused on voyages of discovery to Canada and its early history as a French and then a British colony."
"There are two separate competitions for undergraduate and graduate students, who will be awarded the Harris Fletcher Book Collecting Award and the T.W. Baldwin Prize for Book Collecting, respectively. "
"A Yemeni-Italian team doing archaeological and historical research in Yemen found more than 150 ancient rare manuscripts beneath a minaret of al-Jaami’a al-Kabeer, the Grand Mosque, on March 10. The Grand Mosque in the old city of Sana’a is undergoing a massive rehabilitation project carried out by this team, which comes from the Veneto Institute for Conservation and Cultural Heritage in Italy."
"A recently launched service offered by BibliOZ The Book Search Wizard for finding out-of-print, collectible and hard-to-find books has been developed specifically for the mining and engineering sectors."
"The website portal is managed by Australian company, BiblioQuest International..."
"Ruth’s father, a major collector of rare books, added a library, and in 1954 founded the Lilly Library, at Indiana University, when he donated his twenty thousand volumes and seventeen thousand manuscripts."
"A RARE 19th century handbook of a former dragoon who fought at the battle of Waterloo has been uncovered by a collector from Horbury.
The tiny battered pocket book – The Soldier’s Friend and Traveller’s Vade Mecum – was bought by Richard Knowles, of Rickaro Books, Horbury, and is believed by him to be the only one surviving in the UK."
"A collection of books which were once owned by a member of the Pembrokeshire gentry is to be given to the National Library of Wales.
The 5,000-strong Henry Owen Collection will be handed over to ensure that the books, which include rare editions, stay in public ownership."
" Nair, who is known as much for his published books on Kolkata as for his private collection of rare books, documents and articles on the city, considers Kolkata as an enduring passion. While news of his recent move away from the city had saddened many, Nair admits that he is once again back in business in Kolkata."
"Despite the onslaught of know-everything cell phones, iPods and the 24/7 Internet threatening to make old-fashioned reading extinct, some South Floridians are not detoured from their devotion to books."
"Their home libraries are maintained with specially designed bookshelves, thoughtful organization, constant air conditioning, comfortable reading spots and good lighting."
"Senator Brandis brings to the post experience as a member of the board of the National Library of Australia and a love of collecting rare books."
"He is an active member of Peregian Beach Surf Life Saving Club."
"A couple of decades ago Soviet people were regarded as the most reading all over the world. Inexorable statistics confirmed this fact. Frankly speaking, that was true: in parks, underground stations or buses one could come across people reading newspapers, books and magazines. The book used to be a precious object providing information and cherishing imagination and thoughts of wonderful future or past. Surely, not all works of art were sold in Soviet bookshops; many didn’t happen to pass the censor and were distributed secretly and illegally. To own a rare book meant much then, that is why almost every family tried to collect a home library (classic literature prevailed on shelves). "
"And then there's the house the Stetson University education professor bought in Twain's Missouri hometown, on the same street as the 19th-century author's childhood home near the Mississippi River. One room in that Hannibal, Mo., home is devoted to Tom Sawyer, another to Becky Thatcher. Sort of a private Twain museum."
"Rep.-elect Keith Ellison wanted a Quran upon which to swear his oath to national office today. So he left a message with the head of the Library of Congress' Rare Books and Special Collections division.
A man who, it turned out, happened to be born and raised in the district Ellison will represent in Congress."
"Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Congress' first elected Muslim, Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., will be taking the oath of office on Thursday and will be using a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson. His taking of the oath is poignant as he's sending a message that 'religious differences are nothing to be afraid of.'"
"And in a report in the British Medical Journal this month, they explain how a 300-year-old text by a Dutch naturalist named Rumphius could help scientists in their search for new and better drugs."
"'It was lost traditional knowledge,' Buenz said."
"ISTANBUL: A new type of art book combining superlative quality photography printed at immense cost and rigorous scholarly investigation by international specialists has seen the light of day. The concept might revolutionize the entire industry."
"The renowned Charles L. Blockson Collection of books, manuscripts and photographs - the fifth largest of its kind in the U.S. - got its start in Depression-era Norristown."
"His collection was so vast he was nearly entered into the Vietnamese Guinness Book of Records, but he could not provide the number of books in his collection – only its weight. His son is in the process of helping him transfer his archives onto the computer, but Dang is a little wary of the machine and the internet."
"The Paris sale of the collection of Gerard Nordmann, a Swiss collector and bibliophile, aroused interest across Europe and will complete the break-up of a library Nordmann had spent most of his life acquiring. "
"...four young collectors prove that the love of books lives on. They showcased their prize finds last month at an event sponsored by the Ticknor Society, a Boston book-lovers group. Each displayed the intellect, intensity, and endearing obsessiveness that the hobby seems to inspire."
"PHILADELPHIA -- Some people who visit the acclaimed restaurant Deux Cheminees come for more than chef Fritz Blank’s cuisine. They come for his books."
"As Blank winds down his involvement with Deux Cheminees ("Two Chimneys,’’ in French), the University of Pennsylvania is preparing to acquire a good portion of his library."
"Dilnavaz runs ‘Rare Finds’, dealing in original prints (in which the processes used were engraving, etching, aquatinting, mezzotinting and lithography), old maps and antiquarian books (books which are recognized as occupying a significant place in the literary world)"
"In order to learn about orchids and other flowers, Jack Kramer became a book collector. In the process of collecting books and prints, his love of flowers became supplemented by a love of botanic art, giving him a whole new subject to write about. "
"Mr Stokes owns an array of rare books, manuscripts and historic relics, in July paying $1.2 million for a Gallipoli Victoria Cross which he then donated to the Australian War Memorial."
"Renaissance magician Ricky Jay pulls many rabbits out of his various hats. He's an engaging author ("Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women," "Jay's Journal of Anomalies"). He's also an accomplished actor whose impressive screen oeuvre includes some half-dozen films by his longtime friend and associate, David Mamet."
"The largest house on the street contains the Istanbul Library founded by Çelik Gülersoy. A great book collector, Gülersoy realized that books and magazine articles were being written about Istanbul but were available in Turkey on only a very limited basis and not translated into Turkish. "
"The Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary bought a 5,000-plus book collection from William Jewell College this month for $400,000."
"Andy Pratt, chaplain and vice president for religious ministries at William Jewell, said the Charles H. Spurgeon Collection is significant because it belonged to a famous Baptist pastor."
"Retired journalist Roger Mudd has donated his 1,500 volume collection of 20th-century Southern writers to Washington and Lee University, the school said."
"CHEERS to T.R. McIntosh, retired teacher who plans to sell his extensive collection of rare books and ancient coins to finance a $500,000 pledge to pay for a library at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology."
"Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection is among the 25 collections that Bruccoli a USC emeritus professor, has donated to or established, in collaboration with others, at USC’s Thomas Cooper Library. The best-known one is the Matthew J. Bruccoli and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which includes books, manuscripts and artifacts such as Fitzgerald’s ledger, flask and briefcase."
"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."
"Caleb, who is named literary executor of DeHaven's rare book collection, is shocked to discover that DeHaven owned a first-edition "Bay Psalm Book." Only 11 copies of the priceless book are known to exist, and all are in institutions such as Harvard, Yale and the Library of Congress."