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Show RARE MAZARIN BIELE k IS OFFERED FOR SALE 1 LONDON. A first issue of the rare H Mazarin bible is to be offered for Bale early in November. H It comes from the library of Baroc w C'ss Zouchc, of Parham, Pulborough I Ton years ago the Huth exampoS H brought nearlj (30,000, prdetianlly dou- I ble the amount given for it twenty-five years earlier The Mazarin bible was the earliest I printed in any language, and ranks os H the Irsl Important specimen of mov- able type. Book collectors with Ions: H purses have always regarded the pos- H Besolon of a copy as the treasure of I I There were two issues of thc first H text, the first by Gutenberg in 1455. and the second a year later. This H Issue of (he Latin Vulgate owes its name io the fact that a copy was found H tin Cardinal Mazarin's library. H |