An illuminated leaf from the 1462 Biblia Latina sold for €840,000 (£717,950) by Ketterer Kunst.
Among the very earliest printed works sold at auction at the end of last year was a beautifully illuminated Biblia Latina printed in August 1462, just seven years after the great Gutenberg Bible.
Sold to a Swiss collector for a record €840,000 (£717,950), it was part of a Ketterer Kunst (25% buyer’s premium) auction held in Hamburg on November 25.