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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Imperial 2o (460 x 320 mm). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 122 134 14-166 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-616]. 326 leaves, leaves 29-319 numbered I-CCXCIX with errors, quire 55, the Salmatian supplement, without printed foliation, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:1108G (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. (Blank margin of title and fol. 170, 201-206 and 55/1, 55/6 [blank], repaired, affecting woodcut on verso of fol. 203 some light browning and staining.) 19th-century calf (rebacked, with old spine laid down, edges renewed). Provenance: Georgi Georgievich Mecklenburg (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. A tall copy.
HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Pr 2084; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
Imperial 2o (460 x 320 mm). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 122 134 14-166 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-616]. 326 leaves, leaves 29-319 numbered I-CCXCIX with errors, quire 55, the Salmatian supplement, without printed foliation, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:1108G (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. (Blank margin of title and fol. 170, 201-206 and 55/1, 55/6 [blank], repaired, affecting woodcut on verso of fol. 203 some light browning and staining.) 19th-century calf (rebacked, with old spine laid down, edges renewed). Provenance: Georgi Georgievich Mecklenburg (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. A tall copy.
HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Pr 2084; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.