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  A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF PRINTING, AND ONE OF THE GREATEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED: Exceptionally rare colored Example of first edition of the monumental Nuremberg Chronicle; Published in 1493 and containing over 1800 splendid woodcuts illustrating the history of the world from the Creation of man to the invention of the printing press

  SCHEDEL, Hartmann.

  Liber Chronicarum. [The Nuremberg Chronicle].

  Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.

  Exceptionally rare colored example of the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. Imperial folio, bound in full 17th-century pigskin over bevelled wooden boards with elaborate blind tooling and scrolling to the spine and panels, brass cornerpieces, 2 fore-edge clasps, 325 leaves (of 328, without blank 55/6 and 61/5-6; fos. 9/3.4, 25/1, 53/6, 54/5 and possibly others supplied from another copy), quire 55 bound at end, fos. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockerell's count, some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century, 1897, pp.35-6), by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Durer, lombards, woodcuts coloured by a near-contemporary hand, 14-line initial opening text in interlocking red and blue with purple penwork decoration, other initial spaces left blank, red capital strokes. In near fine condition. (Quires 4 and 5 rehinged, some leaves remargined at hinge and upper or lower margin with some loss [primarily of headline, replaced in pen-and-ink], section of Europe map expertly repaired in facsimile, some light browning, minor repairs). Provenance: annotated throughout in Arabic. The first edition of the N...

  Price: $350,000.00     Item Number: 146920

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  A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF PRINTING, AND ONE OF THE GREATEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED: Rare first edition of the monumental Nuremberg Chronicle; Published in 1493, containing over 1800 splendid woodcuts, and with the first full-page plate hand-painted in full color

  SCHEDEL, Hartmann.

  Liber Chronicarum. [The Nuremberg Chronicle].

  Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493.

  First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, from the St. Petersburg library of William Tooke. Imperial folio, bound in three quarter calf over paper-covered boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, five gilt-tooled raised bands, rebacked, decorated with 1809 woodcut illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, 320 leaves (of 326, without V, IX, CCLXV, CCXCVII, CCXCVIII and final blank), two double-page maps (map of Europe and colophon laid in with chipped fore-edges), illuminated initial on first text leaf, first full-page woodcut in contemporary color, table's initials in red and blue, red and blue paraphs (additions including Maximilian supplement inserted after CCLXVI. The first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in both Latin and German, is estimated to have had between 1,400 and 1,500 Latin copies and 700 to 1,000 German copies. Only about 400 Latin and 300 German copies are known to have survived into the 21st century. The publication history of the Nuremberg Chronicle is perhaps the best documented of any book printed in this period: the contracts between Schedel and his partners Schreyer and Kammermaister, and between Schedel and ...

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