Featuring over 70 decorative or historiated initials in full contemporary colour (one pictured right) a fine copy of a Biblia germanica printed by Gunther Zainer of Augsburg in 1475-76 sold for a record €120,000 (£103,450) in a Ketterer Kunst (20% buyer’s premium) sale of May 22.
Generally recognised as the first illustrated printed Bible, this copy was once in the enormous library formed by Richard Heber and dispersed in 1833 in a series of sales that stretched over some 200 days.