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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dj gamaya" data-source="post: 11793437" data-attributes="member: 61857">Gutenberg Bible (The Gutenberg Bible) <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4NtMRerYIhI/TwRZbyMeJpI/AAAAAAAAqL4/k3NnJ5vF-wA/s1600/Expensive+Books+-+008.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> $ 5.4 million in 1987, the auction Christies ($ 10,2 at current prices). A unique copy of the Bible pioneer Johannes Gutenberg, the oldest extant  book printed with movable type of the set. And it was her 42-line  version of the format in folio (there is a later 36-line version, known  as the Bamberg Bible). 42-line-known among bibliophiles Bible as the  "Mazarin Bible", by the name of the cardinal and the first French  minister Giulio Mazarin, in the securities of which in 1760 was first  detected by the first copy of this Bible. According to the Museum of  Gutenberg's just the beginning of the 1450-ies were printed about 180  copies of a 42-line-the Bible, of which survived to our day 48,  including 21 - complete. Sold at Christies in 1987 Bible - is  incomplete, it is only the first volume. Buyer was a Japanese Maruzen  Corporation. Currently, this copy is kept in the library of Keio  University. </blockquote>

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