PRECIOUS BOOKS.
GREAT PRICES REALISED. . - • By Telegraph.—Press Association.— 1 . . London, December 4. Great prices were realised at the final sale of Lord Amherst's library. A first volume of the Mazariu Bible fetched two thousand guineas. It is believed that Mr. J. Pierpout Morgan bought the famous sixteen , Caxton prints which have long been in the possession of the Amherst family. ■ mmmmm— »~— —m i n n inn' '..-'v. "V; ■:■!■:■':■■.. The Amherst library . was submitted >: for sale some time ago, though some of the rarest books were reserved. • A. recent cablegram announced that Lord, Amherst. . had < lost a-quarter of a million, sterling throughl the , alleged defalcations of a London solicitor, and the sale of, bis ". library is probably a * sequel. The Ma^arin. Bible (on© of 25 copies known to have belonged to Cardinal Mazarin) is the fittit" printed . Bible, issued .by Gutenberg . and .Fust, j about 1450. A sum of £3900 is: on record , as having been given for one of theto volumes.^.^^V:^^ " ''.;. '.'.'.., -■ - ' ' ' ' ——, . —
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13926, 7 December 1908, Page 5
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