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Tuesday, 16 June 2015 11:22

A Fragment of the Gutenberg Bible Heads to Sotheby’s

A copy of the Gutenberg Bible. A copy of the Gutenberg Bible. Wikimedia Commons

Into first editions and have half a million to spare? You are in luck then: a section of a 15th century edition of the Gutenberg Bible will be auctioned off on June 19 at Sotheby's New York, with a presale estimate between $500,000 and $700,000.

The eight-leaf section, taken from a bible printed in 1455, comprises the entire Book of Esther, preceded by the end of the Book of Judith and the prologue of Jerome to Esther, and followed by the prologue of Jerome to Job.

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