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LONDON AUCTION SALE [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. June 22 11.30 a.m. LONDON, June 21. A Gutenberg Bible, originally discovered in a farmhouse, fetched £BOOO at Sotheby’s sale of treasures from the Clumber Library, Worksop, at the instance of the Earl of Lincoln, A fifteenth century illuminated book “Hours of Isabel of Britanny.” fetched £13,500, and a first folio of Shakespeare £5,600.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 7
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