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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. [Nuremberg Chronicle]. Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. [Nuremberg Chronicle]. Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Imperial folio, 436 x 307 mm. (17 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.), seventeenth-century blind-stamped parchment over pasteboard, rubbed, upper joint split, old repaired tear to head of spine, quarter morocco slipcase, folding chemise, title soiled and with edges frayed and old marginal repairs, repaired tear to fol. 109, fols. 297 and 298 remargined at inner edges, Europe map probably supplied from another copy and with tears along gutter causing some loss, occasional splitting along gutters affecting woodcuts, scattered minor marginal tears or repairs, occasional mostly marginal dampstaining, some minor marginal worming.
326 (of 328) leaves, lacking the two final blank leaves, foliated, unsigned. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:110BG (text). 64 lines and headline, partly double column. 2- and 3-line pearled woodcut initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop (possibly including the young Albrecht Dürer), the woodcuts including 2 double-page maps of the world and Europe, 29 city views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts. Unrubricated.
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century, a masterpiece of complex design, 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; Alden 493/21; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
Provenance: Richard Heber, inkstamp on lower pastedown -- A few neat seventeenth- or eighteenth-century marginalia -- David Borowitz, bookplate inside chemise (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 November 1977, lot 291).
Imperial folio, 436 x 307 mm. (17 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.), seventeenth-century blind-stamped parchment over pasteboard, rubbed, upper joint split, old repaired tear to head of spine, quarter morocco slipcase, folding chemise, title soiled and with edges frayed and old marginal repairs, repaired tear to fol. 109, fols. 297 and 298 remargined at inner edges, Europe map probably supplied from another copy and with tears along gutter causing some loss, occasional splitting along gutters affecting woodcuts, scattered minor marginal tears or repairs, occasional mostly marginal dampstaining, some minor marginal worming.
326 (of 328) leaves, lacking the two final blank leaves, foliated, unsigned. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:110BG (text). 64 lines and headline, partly double column. 2- and 3-line pearled woodcut initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop (possibly including the young Albrecht Dürer), the woodcuts including 2 double-page maps of the world and Europe, 29 city views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts. Unrubricated.
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century, a masterpiece of complex design, 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; Alden 493/21; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
Provenance: Richard Heber, inkstamp on lower pastedown -- A few neat seventeenth- or eighteenth-century marginalia -- David Borowitz, bookplate inside chemise (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 November 1977, lot 291).