Schedel (Hartmann) Liber chronicarum [German] Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten, translated by Georg Alt collation: a6 b-e4 f-g6 h4 i6 k2 l4 m6 n8 o-p6 q4 r-v6 x4 y-z6 A-Z6 AA-KK6 [2]; 2a-b6, double column, 330 ff. (of 332, lacking double-page map of Europe), 51-52 lines and headline, Gothic type, 2 xylographic titles, numerous woodcuts, including a half-page world map to c3, city views and portraits, woodcut lombard capitals, register and final blank bound at beginning, some staining, lightly browned, the odd marginal tear with loss, near contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, remains of metal clasps, rebacked, folio (306 x 206mm.), Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1500. ⁂ Schönsperger's scarce 'small-format' second edition in German of the Nuremberg Chronicle. He had first pirated it in 1496 and again in Latin in 1497. Provenance: Mr. Haag, Oberwesel (1908 gift inscription to front pastedown to the following owners); Schönburg Castle; T.J. Oakley Rhinelander (bookplate). The Wolfgang A. Herz Library (Christie's 12th September, 2009, lot 42). Literature: BMC II, 375; BSB-Ink S-199; Goff S-311; HC *14512.
Schedel (Hartmann) Liber chronicarum [German] Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten, translated by Georg Alt collation: a6 b-e4 f-g6 h4 i6 k2 l4 m6 n8 o-p6 q4 r-v6 x4 y-z6 A-Z6 AA-KK6 [2]; 2a-b6, double column, 330 ff. (of 332, lacking double-page map of Europe), 51-52 lines and headline, Gothic type, 2 xylographic titles, numerous woodcuts, including a half-page world map to c3, city views and portraits, woodcut lombard capitals, register and final blank bound at beginning, some staining, lightly browned, the odd marginal tear with loss, near contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, remains of metal clasps, rebacked, folio (306 x 206mm.), Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1500. ⁂ Schönsperger's scarce 'small-format' second edition in German of the Nuremberg Chronicle. He had first pirated it in 1496 and again in Latin in 1497. Provenance: Mr. Haag, Oberwesel (1908 gift inscription to front pastedown to the following owners); Schönburg Castle; T.J. Oakley Rhinelander (bookplate). The Wolfgang A. Herz Library (Christie's 12th September, 2009, lot 42). Literature: BMC II, 375; BSB-Ink S-199; Goff S-311; HC *14512.
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