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Show I'nl'lua and Ktpaiitlre Itmikt. Titers are many rare and costly books In the world, but the most expensive ex-pensive of all aro certain copies or religious re-ligious books. A copy of tho Koran, now In the possession ot tho Bhsh ol t'orsla, Is worth ono hundred and twen-ty-Dvo thousand dollars. Its parchment parch-ment sheoU are bound In a solid gold cover an eighth ot an Inch In thickness, thick-ness, with n silver lining equally thick, The golden cover Is decoratod with precious stones In the form of a crescent. cres-cent. One hundred and nine diamonds one hundred and sixty-seven pearls, and one hundred and twrnty-twc rubles make up tha brilliant decoration. decora-tion. Ily tho aide ot this book the Churchman plucci a copy of the Illble, as ono among tho coil I lea l books ol the world. At the present time It fast I no price, for money would not buy It I It Is a Hebrew version now In the Vatican, As loug ago as 1513 Julius II, refused to part with It for Us wclLhl In gold. There Is, In (he library at (lottlngen, a unlquo Illblo written on five thousand three hundred and soy-cntr-tbree pnlra leaves. Amount nn. common religious books must be classed the edition of tho Illblo used by the Oxford University I'rcis, It only one aud three-quarters Inches In length, and ono and seven-eighths Id breadth. It liss to bo read by meant of a magnifying glaes, and one la given with this tiny Illble for two shillings and threeiience, or flfty-slx cents. Tin Mai quia of DulTerln has a small vol lime one-half tha slis of a postage-stamp. postage-stamp. It Is an edition ot (he sacred book ot the Sikhs. |