Rare 500-year-old book pops up in Utah
04/21/2011
A Utah book dealer got the surprise of his career recently while visiting a small museum just south of Salt Lake City.
Ken Sanders, who specializes in rare books, was attending the event as a volunteer, appraising books for museum visitors. At one point during the event, a man pulled a book out of a garbage bag, telling Sanders he had something that was very, very old, according to the Deseret News.
“According to Sanders, the man said, ‘Well this here, I got this, it’s the Nuremberg Chronicles,’” according to the publication. “Sanders exclaimed, ‘What?’ in astonishment because he knew of the book’s lofty historical reputation. ‘And sure enough,’ Sanders said, ‘lo and behold, it was!’”
The paper said that assuming the editon found in Utah is authentic, it was actually printed in 1493, barely 50 years after Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press.
