1 A page from a rare incunable of Christopher Columbus’ first account of the discovery of the New World sold by Dr Jörn Günther Rare Books at TEFAF. It was priced in the region of €1m.
1. Dr Jörn Günther Rare Books sold a rare incunable of Christopher Columbus’s first account of the discovery of the New World, Epistola de insulis nuper inventis, in its second Basel edition of 1494, priced at approximately €1m (pictured left).
The dealership also sold two miniatures that were illuminated in Simon Bening’s workshop in Bruges between 1510 and 1520 to a private collector for an undisclosed price.