SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2 o (425 x 300 mm). 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]. 323 leaves (of 326, lacking 61/6 blank, CCLXIIII and CCLXVII supplied in facsimile). 4/1-61/3 foliated I-CCLXVI with errors, the Salmation supplement without printed foliation, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Types: 9:165G (headings); 16:110 8G (text). Xylographic title, 2- and 3-line pearled lombard intials, 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, including the young Albrecht Dürer Spaces for larger intials. (Title probably supplied from another shorter copy and remargined, 2/5 with paper restoration along gutter, XCVIII cut along image border but complete, CVIII and CCLXI with tape repair on lower margin, CXXXVI with tape repair extending into text on lower third of sheet, CLXXXVIII with paper restoration on lower sheet with six lines of text supplied in manuscript, map of Europe trimmed within image, three leaves with foliation shaved.) Later calf gilt (gilt faded, rebacked with original spine remounted, some other lesser restoration). Provenance : Lionel H. Pries (bookplate); ?Lyon, Augustinians (18th-century armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. BMC II, 437 (IC. 7458); Goff S-307; HC 14508*; Pr 2084; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2 o (425 x 300 mm). 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]. 323 leaves (of 326, lacking 61/6 blank, CCLXIIII and CCLXVII supplied in facsimile). 4/1-61/3 foliated I-CCLXVI with errors, the Salmation supplement without printed foliation, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Types: 9:165G (headings); 16:110 8G (text). Xylographic title, 2- and 3-line pearled lombard intials, 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, including the young Albrecht Dürer Spaces for larger intials. (Title probably supplied from another shorter copy and remargined, 2/5 with paper restoration along gutter, XCVIII cut along image border but complete, CVIII and CCLXI with tape repair on lower margin, CXXXVI with tape repair extending into text on lower third of sheet, CLXXXVIII with paper restoration on lower sheet with six lines of text supplied in manuscript, map of Europe trimmed within image, three leaves with foliation shaved.) Later calf gilt (gilt faded, rebacked with original spine remounted, some other lesser restoration). Provenance : Lionel H. Pries (bookplate); ?Lyon, Augustinians (18th-century armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. BMC II, 437 (IC. 7458); Goff S-307; HC 14508*; Pr 2084; Schreiber 5203; Shirley 19.
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