1493 NUREMBERG CHRONICLE antique INCUNABULA Liber chronicarum HARTMANN SCHEDEL
img{max-width:100%} NUREMBERG CHRONICLE SCHEDEL, HARTMANN (1440-1514) Liber chronicarum [in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten.] Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493 Imperial folio (427 x 290 mm) 297 leaves (of 298, without final blank). 59-64 lines and headline, table and parts of the text in two columns. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines), xylographic title and c. 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Durer comprising 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of the World and of Europe by Hieronymus Munzer after Nicolas Khrypffs 17th-century Dutch vellum stamped with large central arabesque, rebacked in style. Some browning and staining, xylographic title remargined and laid down, a few leaves with marginal repairs (including first index leaf) a