SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum , in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 23 December 1493. Imperial 2° (438 x 292mm). Collation: [1 1 0 2 6 3-5 4 6-9 6 10 2 11 4 12-14 6 15 2 16-17 6 18-23 4 24-27 6 28 2 29 6 30 4 31-33 6 34 2 35 4 36-50 6 51-52 4 53-56 6 57 2] (1/1r title, verso blank, 1/2r table, 2/1r text, 56/6 blank, 57/1v-2r map of Europe, 57v colophon). 297 leaves (of 298, without 56/6 blank; 56/1 misbound at end of quire 56, duplicate of fol. CLXXXI bound after quire 55, at least 7 leaves supplied from another copy [24/5,6, 37/2-5, 52/3]). Table and parts of the text in two columns, 59-64 lines and headline. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines). Calligraphic woodcut title, 3- to 6-line initial spaces in table, one 9-line initial space on 2/1r, printed initials elsewhere. 645 woodcuts in many different sizes, repeated to a total of over 1800 illustrations, by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop (including the young Albrecht DüRER , the woodcuts including 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page cuts, a world map and a map of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. (Title with marginal tears and laid down, some staining and light browning, neat tears, mostly marginal and often repaired, one neat tear into text crudely repaired, a few leaves torn with loss, occasional wormholes, Europe map partly defective.) Late 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, 2 fore-edge clasps renewed (rebacked in pigskin, some loss of leather on sides, rubbed and darkened). Provenance : early 16th-century two-part woodcut ?ownership ornament stamped in below colophon: banderole with initials SUBUHPML surmounted by an oak sprig -- 16/17th-century annotations, text on Pope Joan crossed through as calumny -- Royal Archeological Institute (early 20th-century label at end). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Koberger published Georg Alt's German translation of Schedel's world history five months after his Latin edition, using the same woodcuts with a few minor variations. The German edition is considerably rarer on the market than the Latin. The present copy has what appears to be an early woodcut ownership stamp at the end. H *14510; BMC II, 437 (IC.7458); Klebs 890.1; Polain(B) 3471; Schreiber 5205; Goff S-309.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum , in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 23 December 1493. Imperial 2° (438 x 292mm). Collation: [1 1 0 2 6 3-5 4 6-9 6 10 2 11 4 12-14 6 15 2 16-17 6 18-23 4 24-27 6 28 2 29 6 30 4 31-33 6 34 2 35 4 36-50 6 51-52 4 53-56 6 57 2] (1/1r title, verso blank, 1/2r table, 2/1r text, 56/6 blank, 57/1v-2r map of Europe, 57v colophon). 297 leaves (of 298, without 56/6 blank; 56/1 misbound at end of quire 56, duplicate of fol. CLXXXI bound after quire 55, at least 7 leaves supplied from another copy [24/5,6, 37/2-5, 52/3]). Table and parts of the text in two columns, 59-64 lines and headline. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines). Calligraphic woodcut title, 3- to 6-line initial spaces in table, one 9-line initial space on 2/1r, printed initials elsewhere. 645 woodcuts in many different sizes, repeated to a total of over 1800 illustrations, by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop (including the young Albrecht DüRER , the woodcuts including 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page cuts, a world map and a map of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. (Title with marginal tears and laid down, some staining and light browning, neat tears, mostly marginal and often repaired, one neat tear into text crudely repaired, a few leaves torn with loss, occasional wormholes, Europe map partly defective.) Late 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, 2 fore-edge clasps renewed (rebacked in pigskin, some loss of leather on sides, rubbed and darkened). Provenance : early 16th-century two-part woodcut ?ownership ornament stamped in below colophon: banderole with initials SUBUHPML surmounted by an oak sprig -- 16/17th-century annotations, text on Pope Joan crossed through as calumny -- Royal Archeological Institute (early 20th-century label at end). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Koberger published Georg Alt's German translation of Schedel's world history five months after his Latin edition, using the same woodcuts with a few minor variations. The German edition is considerably rarer on the market than the Latin. The present copy has what appears to be an early woodcut ownership stamp at the end. H *14510; BMC II, 437 (IC.7458); Klebs 890.1; Polain(B) 3471; Schreiber 5205; Goff S-309.
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