SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial folio, 456 x 305 mm. (18 x 12 in.), late 18th or early 19th-century dark brown sheep, ruled in gilt, lightly rubbed, first leaf repaired and mounted, lacking fol. 53/5 (CCLX, blank except for headline), replaced in facsimile, marginal repairs to fols. [2] and [3], tears in fols. XLVI, LXXXIIII and CIIII repaired without loss, a few marginal tears repaired, inscriptions and annotations washed from several leaves leaving residual stains, a few other minor stains, small wormholes in first and final quires, 18th-century inscriptions washed from initial space on fol. I and from fols. VII, CCLVIII and elsewhere; modern folding cloth case . Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6 ]. 327 (of 328) leaves, without fol. 53/5 (blank except for headline). Types 9:165 G (headings), 16:110 B G (text). 64 lines and headline. 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, spaces for larger initials. HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Schreiber 5203; Alden 493/21; Shirley 19; Goff S-307. FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by the physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth-century.
SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial folio, 456 x 305 mm. (18 x 12 in.), late 18th or early 19th-century dark brown sheep, ruled in gilt, lightly rubbed, first leaf repaired and mounted, lacking fol. 53/5 (CCLX, blank except for headline), replaced in facsimile, marginal repairs to fols. [2] and [3], tears in fols. XLVI, LXXXIIII and CIIII repaired without loss, a few marginal tears repaired, inscriptions and annotations washed from several leaves leaving residual stains, a few other minor stains, small wormholes in first and final quires, 18th-century inscriptions washed from initial space on fol. I and from fols. VII, CCLVIII and elsewhere; modern folding cloth case . Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6 ]. 327 (of 328) leaves, without fol. 53/5 (blank except for headline). Types 9:165 G (headings), 16:110 B G (text). 64 lines and headline. 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, spaces for larger initials. HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Schreiber 5203; Alden 493/21; Shirley 19; Goff S-307. FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by the physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth-century.
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