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SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S THE GUTENBERG BIBLE LONDON, June 21 The Gutenberg Bible, which was originally discovered in a farm house, fetched £BOOO at Sotheby's at a sale of treasures from the Clumber Library, Worksop (Notts) at the instance of the Earl of Lincoln.
A fifteenth-century illuminated book. " The Hours of Isabel of Brittany," fetched £13,500. and a first folio of Shakespeare realised £5600.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 10
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65RARE VOLUMES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 10
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