Title: Four Original Leaves from the Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) with 40 woodcuts, including 3 city views, etc. Author: (Schedel, Hartmann) Place: [Nuremberg] Publisher: [Anton Koberger] Date: [1493] Description: 4 printed leaves with many woodcut illustrations. Approx. 16¼x11¾. From the 1493 Latin edition of the Liber Chronicarum, printed by Anton Koberger Folios XXVII, LXXII(?), CXXIII, CLXII. The profusion of woodcut portraits includes the kings of Egypt; the lineage of the Emperor Tacitus; a smattering of saints; nobility, etc. A large woodcut tableau depicts Joseph before the court of Pharoah. Woodcut views of Mediolanum (Milan); Eistet; and Athens. Lot Amendments Condition: Leaves trimmed at top, one with loss of headline and folio number; 2 leaves with repairs to margins, all quite clean and about very good Item number: 177982
Title: Four Original Leaves from the Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) with 40 woodcuts, including 3 city views, etc. Author: (Schedel, Hartmann) Place: [Nuremberg] Publisher: [Anton Koberger] Date: [1493] Description: 4 printed leaves with many woodcut illustrations. Approx. 16¼x11¾. From the 1493 Latin edition of the Liber Chronicarum, printed by Anton Koberger Folios XXVII, LXXII(?), CXXIII, CLXII. The profusion of woodcut portraits includes the kings of Egypt; the lineage of the Emperor Tacitus; a smattering of saints; nobility, etc. A large woodcut tableau depicts Joseph before the court of Pharoah. Woodcut views of Mediolanum (Milan); Eistet; and Athens. Lot Amendments Condition: Leaves trimmed at top, one with loss of headline and folio number; 2 leaves with repairs to margins, all quite clean and about very good Item number: 177982
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