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Schedel (Hartmann) Liber Chronicarum, first edition, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493.

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Schedel (Hartmann) Liber Chronicarum, first edition, 326ff. (of 328, lacking the final 2 blank leaves), comprising 20 preliminary ff. (xylographic title and index), 266 numbered ff., 5 unnumbered ff. and 1 blank, ff.267-300, the last 2 ff. comprising the double-page map of Europe with colophon on verso, over 1800 woodcut illustrations including town and city views, some double-page, portraits and Biblical scenes, and a double-page map of the world, some worming to inner gutter of preliminaries but not affecting text, scattered worming towards end, affecting text and map, f.159 with short tear into text, last leaf with right-hand half of Europe map to recto repaired to verso but not affecting colophon, some leaves browned, some soiling and staining, especially nearer end, mostly to upper margin but affecting map, but overall a good, sound copy with wide margins, early ink marginalia and annotations, ff. 259-261 (blank except for headline) present but one with outline of watermark in early ink, handsome 19th century russia stamped in gilt and blind, spine with 5 raised bands, joints repaired but upper cover almost detached, lower cover becoming loose, spine ends and corners rubbed, Imperial folio (461 x 312mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.

⁂ A particularly large copy of the most profusely illustrated and arguably best-known book of the 15th century. The colophon acknowledges Michael Wolgemut, the teacher of Albrecht Durer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff as two of the artists involved. The work can be viewed as the "Google" of its time, incorporating the history of the world from creation to the time of printing and the known geography of the planet, drawing on the best available sources of the medieval and Renaissance period. It includes Biblical scenes, portraits of Kings, Queens and Popes, views of all the major cities and towns of Europe and beyond, references to medicine, meteorological and astronomical phenomena, the invention of printing some 40 years earlier, and a depiction of ancient Troy and several figures from the Trojan war.

Provenance: Dartrey (bookplate); "From Cardinal Albani's library" (pencil inscription to front free endpaper).

Literature: HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Klebs 889.1; Polain (B) 3469; Goff S307.

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Schedel (Hartmann) Liber Chronicarum, first edition, 326ff. (of 328, lacking the final 2 blank leaves), comprising 20 preliminary ff. (xylographic title and index), 266 numbered ff., 5 unnumbered ff. and 1 blank, ff.267-300, the last 2 ff. comprising the double-page map of Europe with colophon on verso, over 1800 woodcut illustrations including town and city views, some double-page, portraits and Biblical scenes, and a double-page map of the world, some worming to inner gutter of preliminaries but not affecting text, scattered worming towards end, affecting text and map, f.159 with short tear into text, last leaf with right-hand half of Europe map to recto repaired to verso but not affecting colophon, some leaves browned, some soiling and staining, especially nearer end, mostly to upper margin but affecting map, but overall a good, sound copy with wide margins, early ink marginalia and annotations, ff. 259-261 (blank except for headline) present but one with outline of watermark in early ink, handsome 19th century russia stamped in gilt and blind, spine with 5 raised bands, joints repaired but upper cover almost detached, lower cover becoming loose, spine ends and corners rubbed, Imperial folio (461 x 312mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.

⁂ A particularly large copy of the most profusely illustrated and arguably best-known book of the 15th century. The colophon acknowledges Michael Wolgemut, the teacher of Albrecht Durer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff as two of the artists involved. The work can be viewed as the "Google" of its time, incorporating the history of the world from creation to the time of printing and the known geography of the planet, drawing on the best available sources of the medieval and Renaissance period. It includes Biblical scenes, portraits of Kings, Queens and Popes, views of all the major cities and towns of Europe and beyond, references to medicine, meteorological and astronomical phenomena, the invention of printing some 40 years earlier, and a depiction of ancient Troy and several figures from the Trojan war.

Provenance: Dartrey (bookplate); "From Cardinal Albani's library" (pencil inscription to front free endpaper).

Literature: HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Klebs 889.1; Polain (B) 3469; Goff S307.

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