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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Imperial 2o (445 x 303 mm). 327 leaves (of 328, lacks blank leaf 61/6), 4/1-61/3 foliated I-CCLXVI with errors, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Gothic types 9:165 (headings), 16:1108 (text). Xylographic title, 2- and 3-line pearled Lombard initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations (Sydney Cockerell's count), including 2 double-page maps of the World (Shirley 19) and Europe, 29 town views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts, by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including the young Albrecht Dürer. Spaces for larger initials. (Numerous leaves supplied, remargined, torn and repaired.) Modern blind tooled calf, brass center and corner pieces, two brass clasps. Provenance: H. Legel (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. HC *14508; BMC II, 437; Pr 2084; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19; Goff S-307. Sold not subject to return.
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FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. HC *14508; BMC II, 437; Pr 2084; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19; Goff S-307. Sold not subject to return.