Auction record for any book as Hebrew bible takes $38.1m at Sotheby’s
Setting an auction record for any book, manuscript or item of Judaica, a work billed as the ‘earliest and most complete Hebrew bible’ in existence sold for $33.5m (£26.6m) at Sotheby’s New York.
With buyer’s premium added, plus the additional 1% ‘overhead premium’ charged by Sotheby’s, the pric…