Word: bodmeriana
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Died. Martin Bodmer, 71, Swiss banker and collector of rare books and manuscripts; of peritonitis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Bodmer accumulated more than 100,000 items in his "Bibliotheca Bodmeriana," including one of three copies of the Gutenberg Bible in private collection. His greatest coup was his 1952 acquisition of 73 folios and quartos of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The price was more than...