Dealer Buys Rare Bible for Nearly $2 Million
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LONDON — A New York dealer paid $1.94 million for an early German Bible on Wednesday, Christie’s auctioneers said.
The work, printed about 1460, is known as the 36-line Bible because it has 36 lines to a column in contrast to the earlier and more famous Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed in the West in 1455, which has 42 lines to a column.
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