A 17th-Century Book With a Hidden Compartment for Poison Is Selling for $11,000
Most rare Holy Scripture are noteworthy for their illustrations or prose . But there ’s something different hiding between the covers of a pagination presently for cut-rate sale for $ 11,000 onAbeBooks : The script acts as a miniature apothecary cabinet with spaces for lay in jars of poison . The confidential warehousing box masquerading as a manuscript was likely gather sometime in the 19th century , Atlas Obscurareports . It uses the leather bandage of Sebastião Barradas ’s Opera omnia , vol ....