Auction catalogue of duplicates from the unique collection of early printed books published, in the main, by Aldus Manutius in Venice during the late C15th and early C16th, assembled by the bibliophile Earl Spencer in the early C19th, and subsequently donated to the John Rylands Library in the 18

A magnificent auction catalogue to a single lot.  The Ottheinrich Bible is incomparably the finest surviving manuscript of the German vernacular Bible originally commissioned around 1430 by Ludwig VII.