King James Bible in a restoration binding sells for $380,000 in the ‘Perryville’ Doheny auction
In October 1987, Christie’s embarked on a series of six sales to dispose of the Doheny library, a spectacular series of auctions that ended in May 1989 and raised a grand total of $38m – a sum that remains to this day a record for any library sold at auction.
In the early part of last year, Christie’s Mid-West regional office in Chicago was contacted by St M…