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The '''Bay Psalm Book''' was one of the first printed books in [[North America]].  It was the [[Book of Psalms]] as printed by the [[Puritans]It h] in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in 1640.

The '''Bay Psalm Book''' was the first printed book in [[North America]].  It was the [[Book of Psalms]] as translated and then printed by the [[Puritans]] in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in 1640.

It holds the record for the highest auction price for a printed book ever, "sold for $14.2 million to American philanthropist David M. Rubenstein in 2013."<ref>https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/shakespeare-first-folio-sells-just-under-10-million#:~:text=Yesterday%2C%20a%20copy%20of%20Shakespeare's,writer%20in%20the%20English%20language</ref>

It holds the record for the highest auction price for a printed book ever, "sold for $14.2 million to American philanthropist David M. Rubenstein in 2013."<ref>https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/shakespeare-first-folio-sells-just-under-10-million#:~:text=Yesterday%2C%20a%20copy%20of%20Shakespeare's,writer%20in%20the%20English%20language</ref>

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The fifth-highest record price for the sale of any book (not printed) was the $30,802,500 paid by [[Bill Gates]] for the leather-bound notebook of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, known as the Codex Leicester (or sometimes the Codex Hammer).  That auction was on November 11, 1994 in [[New York City]], at Christie's.

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