Will this be the world’s most expensive book?

Familiarly known as the Bay Psalm Book, one of the finest surviving copies of the first book printed in what is now the USA is expected to become the world’s most expensive book at Sotheby’s New York in November.

Congregationalist Puritans who had emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of religious …

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