Why rare books are having a moment
Thanks to the recent $38 million sale of the ancient bible known as the Codex Sassoon, the rare books market is having a moment.
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Thanks to the recent $38 million sale of the ancient bible known as the Codex Sassoon, the rare books market is having a moment.
The 28-page leather-bound collection of papyrus scriptures was seized during Turkey's latest smuggling crackdown in Istanbul.
(JTA) - On Wednesday morning, Alfred Moses, 94, sat in a small white armchair at a round wooden table in a Manhattan office building as a historian
(RNS) — Alfred H. Moses, the 93-year-old former US ambassador to Romania, only learned about the rare, 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible three months ago.