Tea Topics: 'Noble Fragments' with Michael Visontay

Next date: Sunday, 20 July 2025 | 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

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Join Sydney journalist Michael Visontay as he shares his journey into the eccentric world of book collectors and his family’s secrets.

The Gutenberg Bible was the first substantial book in Europe to be produced on a printing press. Then in 1921, New York bookseller Gabriel Wells did the unthinkable: he broke up the famous Bible to sell it as individual pages, raking in a fortune and scandalising the literary world.

Decades later, Sydney journalist Michael Visontay stumbled on a legal document connecting Wells with his own family.

Follow Michael’s obsessive hunt to track down the scattered pages, documented in Noble Fragments. He shares his journey into the eccentric world of book collectors and his family’s secrets with host Michaela Kalowski.

When

  • Sunday, 20 July 2025 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Location

Woollahra Library at Double Bay, 451 New South Head Road, Double Bay, 2028, View Map

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