SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum . Nuremburg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (446 x 294mm). Foliation: [Title + 19 unnumbered leaves], I-CCXCIX, [6 unnumbered leaves]. 324 leaves only (of 328, lacking title, foliated leaves CCLXI-CCLXII and final blank), table and part of text in two columns, 64 lines and head-line, approximately 1809 by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleyendorff and Albrecht Dürer including double-page maps of Europe and the World (the former from smaller copy, torn with loss and repaired), and 29 woodcuts extending across 2 pages, first 16 leaves and a few other illustrations with old hand-colouring. (Foliated leaves VI, CLIII, CLXVI and CCLXIII torn into text, the first with loss, unnumbered leaf with view of Crakow and Lubeck torn with loss, some other minor tears, occasionally just touching text, some leaves soiled or dampstained.) 19th-century panelled calf (slightly worn), spine gilt in compartments with lettering piece. Provenance : early gloss on a few leaves; Herbert Watney (booklabel); Louis Thompson Rowe (booklabel). FIRST EDITION of the Nuremburg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century and a masterpiece of complex design. HC *14508; BMC II 437 (IC. 7451-3); Goff S-307.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum . Nuremburg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (446 x 294mm). Foliation: [Title + 19 unnumbered leaves], I-CCXCIX, [6 unnumbered leaves]. 324 leaves only (of 328, lacking title, foliated leaves CCLXI-CCLXII and final blank), table and part of text in two columns, 64 lines and head-line, approximately 1809 by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleyendorff and Albrecht Dürer including double-page maps of Europe and the World (the former from smaller copy, torn with loss and repaired), and 29 woodcuts extending across 2 pages, first 16 leaves and a few other illustrations with old hand-colouring. (Foliated leaves VI, CLIII, CLXVI and CCLXIII torn into text, the first with loss, unnumbered leaf with view of Crakow and Lubeck torn with loss, some other minor tears, occasionally just touching text, some leaves soiled or dampstained.) 19th-century panelled calf (slightly worn), spine gilt in compartments with lettering piece. Provenance : early gloss on a few leaves; Herbert Watney (booklabel); Louis Thompson Rowe (booklabel). FIRST EDITION of the Nuremburg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century and a masterpiece of complex design. HC *14508; BMC II 437 (IC. 7451-3); Goff S-307.
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