NEW YORK – More people are turning to the Bible as a safe refuge from a struggling stock market and rising inflation, pouring large sums of cash into rare 1611 King James Bibles, centuries-old Matthew ...
What’s the price of salvation? How about $180,000, give or take? OK, maybe that’s not the price of salvation. But it does happen to be the price of a very old, very rare and very pricey edition of the ...
NEW YORK - When an appraiser was asked to evaluate the American Bible Society’s rare book collection in Manhattan, he came to an alarming discovery - an active mold outbreak was attacking nearly a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — First editions of some of the earliest Bibles and other religious texts to be printed in North America will be on display in an upcoming exhibit. "In God We Trust" runs from April 17 ...
BALTIMORE — Joseph McGraw had doubts when his friend told him about a first edition of the King James Bible that was sitting in a downtown Baltimore office. But when the hulking book came off the ...
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The antique Bible market is hot. But if you don't have the money to buy a first edition King James Version you still can get your hands on one at the Christian Heritage Museum, whose ...
In a tome like the Bible, printing errors are probably pretty common. Scan through the Ten Commandments as laid out in a rare 1631 Bible, however, and you'll come across a rather unfortunate one: ...
A rare Bible from the battle of Bunker Hill will be exhibited at the Museum of the American Revolution when it opens in Philadelphia next year. The recently-acquired King James Bible is inscribed by ...
Using modern analytical techniques, researchers in England say they have for the first time precisely identified the pigments used to illustrate seven Gutenberg Bibles located in Europe. The findings ...
Mike Morgan used to laugh when he told friends that on the salary of a mere church organist, he managed to amass one of the world’s best private collections of English language Bibles. But he did. He ...
Two volunteers sorting through donations at an Oxfam charity shop in Essex were surprised to uncover a rare copy of the first Bible ever translated into Chinese — a discovery that later sold at ...
The Museum of Printing in Haverhill is hosting a display of its extensive collection of rare Bibles. The museum has one leaf from each Bible printed in Colonial America, including the Eliot Bible of ...
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