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...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...
Aside from various books and letters of value, a million and a half dollars seems a high price for such relies as those with which Dr. Rosenbach returned. Death masks are ornamental, of course, and a "fine Holland shirt" would probably survive at least one session with the washerwoman: but what secret passion could be satisfied by a "picket containing Napoleon's Hair", and a mummified tendon from the body of the Emperor, in a strange little box with a glass window", is hard for the layman to under stand. Moments of so distinctly personal a character might better have...
...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...
...relics passed from Vignali to his nephew Charles Marie Gianettini, who has just sold them to Dr. Rosenbach with a special notarial act vouching for their authenticity...