February 2, 2018
What is the Gutenberg Bible? The new Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is entered by a pair of doors imprinted with a page of its text, some two and a half tons in...
"Gutenberg Bible to be sold here," reads the headline to The New York Times for February 4, 1926, "Rare Volumes Are Expected to Bring $75,000."
On February 6, 1926, a copy...
BIBLIA LATINA. [Mainz, Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455.] 2 volumes, folio, 324 and 317 leaves. A fine, clean and perfect copy, bound in two volumes, about 1700 A.D.,...
Some years ago, my great aunt Clara died. No. “Died” is not the right word. “Vanished” is what I mean. She was an aunt on my father’s side and lived in an odd little village...