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SCHEDEL (HARTMANN) Liber Chronicarum, Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1 February 1497 image 1
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SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)
Liber Chronicarum, Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1 February 1497

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)

Liber Chronicarum, 364 leaves (of 366, wanting 2 blanks), 51 lines and headline, double column, gothic letter, woodcut title, woodcut tile before index, c. 1800 woodcut illustrations including a large map of Northern Europe (often missing: folded, shaved at upper margin, a few neat fold repairs on verso), 2- to 8-line initials, a few ink marginalia and underlinings and early ink ownership annotations on title, tiny single wormhole to approximately 25 opening leaves, short neat tear repaired to lower margin of 9 leaves (touching letters on 4), folio 7 with margins shortened, occasional toning and light damp-stain in lower margin of a few leaves but generally good, nineteenth century marbled boards, rubbed [ISTC is00308000; USTC 748764; BMC II 370; Goff S308; GW M40786], folio (279 x 198mm.), Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1 February 1497

Footnotes

THE 1497 EDITION OF THE NURMEBERG CHRONICLE, COMPLETE WITH THE FOLDING MAP. This edition, which appeared three years after the publication of the monumental Augsburg original, is in a smaller format, but is considerably rarer and is characterised by the greater number of illustrations, albeit smaller in size. This is the first Latin edition printed by Schönsperger, and includes fine impressions of the illustrations based on Wohlgemuth and Pleydenwurff's originals.

Provenance: Georgius Jobst, Canonical lawyer of Passau and Regensburg ("Georgius Jobst utriusque Juris Doctor Canonicus Passaviensis et Ratisbonensis possessor est huius libri [...] 1602"), early ink inscription on title page; two other ink inscriptions in an early hand on title, first flyleaf and last flyleaf; small ink stamp "Verkaufte Doublette" on title; Bonhams, 12 November 2013, lot 254.

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