First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle
First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle
printed in July 1493, illustrated with 1809 woodcuts.
Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Chronicarum. Chronique de Nuremberg.
A la fin: “Consummatu autem duodecima mensis Iulii. Anno Salutis n’re. 1493. »
Nuremberg, 12 juillet 1493.
Large folio [452 x 305 mm], (20) preliminary leaves, 300 ff. and (5) ff. inserted between ff. 266 and 267 (without final blank). Complete with the 3 blank leaves CCLIX-CCLX-CCLXI; inner margin of the double-page map at the end of the volume reinforced.
Bound in 19th Century brown blind-stamped morocco, decorated ribbed spine.
First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, illustrated with 1809 woodcuts.
Fairfax Murray, II, 394 ; Hain 14508 ; Proctor 2084 ; B.M.C. II, 437; Muther 424; Schreiber 5203; Dogson, I, 228; Goff S 307; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 533.
Most European towns are engraved on double or single pages: Jerusalem, Rome, Venice, Firenze, Augsburg, Vienna, Nuremberg (345 x 520 mm), Constantinople, Strasbourg, Salzburg, Ulm, Munich, Prague, Basel, Cracow, …
These famous woodcuts were produced by Wolgemut, Albrecht Dürer’s master from 1486 to 1490.
That’s one of the most spectacular incunable evidence about Fifteenth-Century Europe.
« The Chronicle and the Schatzbehalter are the two first important books with original illustrations published at Nuremberg and with the exception of Bredenbach, the earliest books printed in Germany of which the woodcuts can be assigned with certainty to a known draughtsman ». Dogson.
A charming wide-margined copy (452 mm high), complete with the 3 blank leaves that are often missing.
Price: €75 000
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