Douglas Stewart Fine Books , Melbourne ,special.
We are privileged to offer for sale - at $220,000 - an item associated with one of the most revolutionary innovations of the Renaissance, one which permanently changed the way in which information and ideas are disseminated:
A leaf from the first book printed by movable type, the Gutenberg Bible (c.1455)
This leaf, containing a portion of text from the Latin Vulgate Old Testament (Isaiah 63:1 - 65:22), comes from the incomplete Trier Stadtbibliothek copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which was sold as a duplicate prior to 1937 and was subsequently split, with various sections and individual leaves being widely dispersed during the twentieth century.
