  • Sotheby’s Spotlights Rare Books

    A coming auction provides a glimpse at a bibliophile’s treasures

    A copy of the Gutenberg Bible and a prayer book signed by King Henry VII, who reigned from 1485 to 1509. A Thomas Hobbes treatise believed to have been handwritten by the philosopher himself. Palladio’s four volumes on architecture, dating back to the 16th century. An edition of Shakespeare published shortly after the playwright’s death.

    These literary treasures are on the bookshelves and in the display cases of past and present members of the Roxburghe Club. The club, which calls itself the world’s oldest society of bibliophiles,...

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