From Donation Bin to Sotheby’s: How a Rare 19th-Century Bible Almost Got Away

On his first day as a volunteer for the Friends of Knight Memorial Library, in March 2014, John Marks was asked to help finalize prices for one of the library’s twice-annual, vintage-book sales. One of these was a five-volume, 19th-century Torah, grandly titled “The Law of God” and edited and translated by Isaac Leeser. The publication date was listed as 5605 in the Jewish calendar, which in the Gregorian calendar is anywhere from the fall of 1844 through the summer of 1845.
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