Battered and riddled with printing errors, it looks like something you could pick up in a second hand shop for under a fiver. But this collection of Psalms collection of Psalms has just sold for a ...

BOSTON – The first book printed in what would become the United States was a Puritan hymnal of psalms, sturdy enough that 11 copies that came off a wooden Cambridge press in 1640 still exist. Now, a ...

A book of Puritan psalms produced in 1640 will go on display in Houston for one day only. "The Bay Psalm Book" goes on display Thursday at the Bayou Bend house museum of The Museum of Fine Arts, ...

ST. LOUIS -- A book of Puritan psalms produced in 1640 will be on display in St. Louis on Friday before it goes on sale at an auction, where it is expected to sell for millions of dollars. The Bay ...

(RNS) The Bay Psalm Book “is for American book collecting what the Guttenberg Bible has been for collecting, period,” said Bill Reese, a major dealer in printed Americana “…Except there are 46 copies ...

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HOUSTON-A book of Puritan psalms produced in 1640 will go on display in Houston for one day only. "The Bay Psalm Book" goes on display Thursday at the Bayou Bend house museum of The Museum of Fine ...

The first book written in what is today the United States of America fetched $14.2 million in New York on Tuesday, becoming the world’s most expensive printed book sold at auction. The translation of ...