SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Das Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 23 December 1493. 2° (444 x 290 mm). 296 leaves (of 297, lacking f. 262). Gothic types. Approximately 1800 woodcuts, two hand-coloured, by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer lombards, spaces left blank for larger initials. (Xylographic title and final verso mounted, some staining, soiling, remargining and paper repairs, 4 leaves torn with loss, headlines and foliation occasionally slightly shaved, text on Pope Joan censored.) 18th-century mottled calf (scuffed). Provenance : some landmarks in the woodcuts identified in a 16/17th-century hand. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. H 14510; BMC II, 437; Pol 3471; Klebs 891.1; Schramm XVII, p.9; Goff S-309.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Das Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 23 December 1493. 2° (444 x 290 mm). 296 leaves (of 297, lacking f. 262). Gothic types. Approximately 1800 woodcuts, two hand-coloured, by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer lombards, spaces left blank for larger initials. (Xylographic title and final verso mounted, some staining, soiling, remargining and paper repairs, 4 leaves torn with loss, headlines and foliation occasionally slightly shaved, text on Pope Joan censored.) 18th-century mottled calf (scuffed). Provenance : some landmarks in the woodcuts identified in a 16/17th-century hand. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. H 14510; BMC II, 437; Pol 3471; Klebs 891.1; Schramm XVII, p.9; Goff S-309.
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