A first edition Charizard card has been sold for $550,000, breaking the $420,000 record that has stood for nearly four years.

The man known only as “Kabuto King” has been purchasing every first edition, mint-condition copy of the Pokemon card Kabuto from 1999.

A previously unknown first edition copy of Nicolas Copernicus’ landmark scientific text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), sold at auction for £277,200 ...