A Gutenberg Bible owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California, has enjoyed some exciting exploits in its 600-year history. It’s been owned by Silesian nobles, traded by a Scottish ...
When railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington bought a rare edition of the Gutenberg Bible in 1911, he paid $55,000—the equivalent of around $1.8 million today. But despite the high price, Huntington’s ...
After being separated for two hundred years, a rare 15th-century devotional print, “Christ on the Mount of Olives,” has been reunited with the Gutenberg Bible that once held it. The print shows Christ ...