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Show Rare Book There are estimated to be only 1 about 45 Gutenberg Bibles in the I world and in 1384 one sold for j $15,000. At that time, many of the books were privately owned. 1 Today, with most of the Bibles permanently retired to museums j and thus off the market, the price-j price-j should be higher. The Gutenberg Bible is valuable not for its scarcity alone. It is a curiosity because authorities aren't even sure Johann Gutenberg Guten-berg printed it. In fact, some experts ex-perts claim the Fifteenth century German wasn't a printer at all! Washington Post. |