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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Imperial folio, 448 x 304 mm. (17 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.), nineteenth-century quarter maroon morocco, spine gilt-lettered, rubbed, corners abraded, upper inner hinge weak, penwork extensions to initials on fols. 2r and 21r bound into gutters, marginalia cropped, several repairs to title-leaf not affecting text, fol. 2 with restoration to corner and repaired tear slightly affecting 9 letters, repaired tear to fol. CLXIX affecting edge of woodcut and 7 letters on verso, a few other minor marginal repairs, a dozen wormholes to last few leaves including Europe map, occasional worming throughout, washed, scattered small stains and marginal soiling, a very few leaves darkened.
[Collation obscured by rebinding]. 326 (of 328) leaves, lacking the two final blanks, foliated, unsigned. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:110BG
(text). 64 lines and headline, partly double column. Fols. CCLVIIv-CCLVIIIr (the inner forme of sheet 53/3.4) in the first, uncorrected state, with quads set in place of the capital As. 2- and 3-line pearled woodcut initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including 2 double-page maps and 29 woodcuts extending across two pages. Rubricated: 2- to 8-line pearled Lombard initials supplied in red ink, large capital initials on fols. 2r and 21r in red and blue brushwork with marginal penwork infill and extensions in dark red ink.
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century, and one of the most ambitious publishing ventures of the first two centuries of printing.
HC 14508*; Proctor 2084*; BMC II, 437 (IC 7451-3); Polain 3469; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
Provenance: Scattered annotations and underlining in two different sixteenth-century hands; a few later marginalia -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).
Imperial folio, 448 x 304 mm. (17 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.), nineteenth-century quarter maroon morocco, spine gilt-lettered, rubbed, corners abraded, upper inner hinge weak, penwork extensions to initials on fols. 2r and 21r bound into gutters, marginalia cropped, several repairs to title-leaf not affecting text, fol. 2 with restoration to corner and repaired tear slightly affecting 9 letters, repaired tear to fol. CLXIX affecting edge of woodcut and 7 letters on verso, a few other minor marginal repairs, a dozen wormholes to last few leaves including Europe map, occasional worming throughout, washed, scattered small stains and marginal soiling, a very few leaves darkened.
[Collation obscured by rebinding]. 326 (of 328) leaves, lacking the two final blanks, foliated, unsigned. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:110BG
(text). 64 lines and headline, partly double column. Fols. CCLVIIv-CCLVIIIr (the inner forme of sheet 53/3.4) in the first, uncorrected state, with quads set in place of the capital As. 2- and 3-line pearled woodcut initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including 2 double-page maps and 29 woodcuts extending across two pages. Rubricated: 2- to 8-line pearled Lombard initials supplied in red ink, large capital initials on fols. 2r and 21r in red and blue brushwork with marginal penwork infill and extensions in dark red ink.
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century, and one of the most ambitious publishing ventures of the first two centuries of printing.
HC 14508*; Proctor 2084*; BMC II, 437 (IC 7451-3); Polain 3469; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
Provenance: Scattered annotations and underlining in two different sixteenth-century hands; a few later marginalia -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).