Word: rosenbach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. The Misses Rebecca and Miriam Rosenbach, sisters of famed bibliophile** Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach (TIME, March 1, RELIGION), at Philadelphia, of pneumonia, within a few hours of each other...
...most prized bibliographical treasures in the world is a Gutenberg Bible. The first edition is four times as rare as a first folio of Shakespeare. Last week in Manhattan a perfect copy of this Bible was auctioned off for $106,000 to Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach...
...Morgan Library† opened the contest with an offer of $50,000. Bids jumped at once by $5,000 each until William Evarts Benjamin, supposedly on behalf of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, called $85,000. Thereafter he had to compete only with Dr. Rosenbach. At $100,000 the sedate yet tense crowd cheered. Dr. Rosenbach offered $104,000. Mr. Benjamin covered him with $105,000. Then came "$106,000" from the Doctor. Mr. Benjamin kept silent...
...Writer, bibliographer, collector. He trips between his Philadelphia and Manhattan homes on the clew of precious printed matter or autographs. In 1923 the Rosenbach Co., of which he is secretary, paid approximately $43,350 for another copy...
...wonders why Dr. Rosenbach did not leave his treasures, including the hair and the strange little box with the mass window in the hands of their original owners. In most of its manifestations, especially where it is a question of chewing gum wrappers and clear capons the mania of collection serves some slight purpose, but when if details an expenditure of over over a million dollars, and results mainly a fascinating juts of corpses, the game seems hardly worth the candle Phere are so many more interesting things that a really clever scender could do with the money...