A noble fragment being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455 | Collections | The Huntington

A noble fragment being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455 | Collections | The Huntington

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A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455
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The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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An illuminated page of the celebrated 42-line "Gutenberg Bible" the world's first important printed book, Mainz, about 1455 [a facsimile]
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Wit against reason: or, the protestant champion, the great, the incomparable Chillingworth, not invulnerable. : Being a treatise, in which are laid open the noble adventures, ... of that immortal man in defence of the Bible, ... By H. E
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