May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Complete color facsimile of the 42-line Vulgate printed by Johann Gutenberg circa 1455.] 2 volumes. Folio, 453x306 mm, original 1/4 brown morocco gilt by Alpha with blind-stamped double-fillet lozenges enclosing Gutenberg monogram on front covers, worn, spines discolored; contents clean. (Paterson, N.J.: Pageant Books, 1961)

Additional Details

number 39 of 1000 sets of a facsimile based on the 1911 Insel Verlag edition reproducing richly illuminated copies at libraries in Fulda and Berlin.