![SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum, translated by Georg Alt (c. 1450-1510): Das buch der Cronicken und gedechtnus wirdigern geschihten. [With contributions by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508).] Illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff [and Albrecht Dürer]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23rd December 1493.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/NYR/2011_NYR_02456_0201_000(schedel_hartmann_liber_chronicarum_translated_by_georg_alt_das_buch_de083728).jpg?w=1)
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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum, translated by Georg Alt (c. 1450-1510): Das buch der Cronicken und gedechtnus wirdigern geschihten. [With contributions by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508).] Illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff [and Albrecht Dürer]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23rd December 1493.
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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum, translated by Georg Alt (c. 1450-1510): Das buch der Cronicken und gedechtnus wirdigern geschihten. [With contributions by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508).] Illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff [and Albrecht Dürer]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23rd December 1493.
Imperial 2o (428 x 298 mm). Collation: [110 (1 xylographic title Register Des buchs, 2-10 index); 26 3-54 6-96 102 114 12-146 152 16-176 18-234 24-276 282 296 304 31-336 342 354 36-506 51-524 (chronicle); 53-566 (-56/6 blank) 572 (supplement, map and colophon)]. [10], CCLXXXVI [1] leaves. Gothic types 9:165 (headings) and 24:111 (text), the latter specially cut for this edition, 59 lines and headline to a full page. Some 1809 woodcuts printed from about 645 blocks (Sydney Cockerell's count in the Latin edition), including a full-sheet map of Europe, a Ptolemaean world map, large and small city views, biblical and historical scenes, portraits, etc. Intials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, early illumination to first numbered leaf (trimmed and rubbed). (World map torn and repaired, a few other leaves repaired, last 10 leaves probably supplied from another copy, with minor mostly marginal worming, occassional some light staining.) Modern calf antique.
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN, rarer than Koberger's first Latin edition of five months earlier, of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, a masterpiece of complex design. BMC II, 437-438; BSB-Ink S-197; CIBN S-163; Goff S-309; H 14510*.
Imperial 2o (428 x 298 mm). Collation: [110 (1 xylographic title Register Des buchs, 2-10 index); 26 3-54 6-96 102 114 12-146 152 16-176 18-234 24-276 282 296 304 31-336 342 354 36-506 51-524 (chronicle); 53-566 (-56/6 blank) 572 (supplement, map and colophon)]. [10], CCLXXXVI [1] leaves. Gothic types 9:165 (headings) and 24:111 (text), the latter specially cut for this edition, 59 lines and headline to a full page. Some 1809 woodcuts printed from about 645 blocks (Sydney Cockerell's count in the Latin edition), including a full-sheet map of Europe, a Ptolemaean world map, large and small city views, biblical and historical scenes, portraits, etc. Intials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, early illumination to first numbered leaf (trimmed and rubbed). (World map torn and repaired, a few other leaves repaired, last 10 leaves probably supplied from another copy, with minor mostly marginal worming, occassional some light staining.) Modern calf antique.
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN, rarer than Koberger's first Latin edition of five months earlier, of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, a masterpiece of complex design. BMC II, 437-438; BSB-Ink S-197; CIBN S-163; Goff S-309; H 14510*.