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Schedel, Hartmann.

Chronica, German (transl. by Georg Alt): Das Buch der Croniken u. Geschichten. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister, 23.XII.1493). Gr.-Fol. CCXXII (st. CCLXXXVI) num. With c. 1500 partly full- or double-page woodcuts. Woodcuts by Michael Wolgemuth a. Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Brown boards circa 1600 with blind embossed cover. mod. Wd. cassette. (5000,-) GW M40796; Hain 14510; BMC II, 437; Pr. 2086; Goff S 309; BSB-Ink S 197; IGI 8830; Pell. 10354; Polain 3471; Voull., Bln. 1746; Dodgson I, 246; Muther 424; Schramm XVII, ill. 408-576; Schreiber 5205. - First German edition, printed six months after the Latin, but generally rarer as it was published in a smaller edition. The most richly illustrated incunabulum ever, the woodcuts of high artistic value. Particularly noteworthy are the large views of important European cities, many of them the first topographically accurate depictions of these places. For Georg Alt's translation see: Worlds of Knowledge. Die Bibliothek und die Weltchronik des Nürnberger Arztes Hartmann Schedel, exhib. cat. of the BSB Munich 2014, pp. 121ff. The 10 unn. Bll. at the beginning, the rom. num. Pls. 1-19, 27-29, 32-35, 41, 46, 49, 54, 65, 70, 81, 89, 93-95, 101, 102, 124-127, 162, 172, 183, 184, 186, 187, 201, 203, 225, 226, 239, 247, 258, 262, 268 and 281-286 as well as the unn. Final leaf. Of the dpblgr. views are present: Venice, Rome, Jerusalem, Florence, Cologne, Augsburg, Regensburg (lower left corner missing), Vienna, Nuremberg, Constantinople, Buda, Salzburg, Erfurt (lower right corner missing), Würzburg, Magdeburg, Ulm, Passau, Prague, Wroclaw, Constance, Basel, Krakow, Lübeck a. Neisse. Further mostly by w. Paper replaced tears a. sections with partly stronger loss of text a. image at vols. 71, 106, 110, 149 and 242. Numerous marginal repairs. Gently cleaned, a few leaves still browned or soiled. Top margin slightly trimmed, headline partly touched. Occasional old marginalia; the preachers misleading the people on the full-page woodcut. Woodcut "Das sibend alter Von dem Anticrist (p. 259v) inscribed "D. Philip: Melan: J:Hus Hier: vo Prag. Binding rubbed, edges, capitals and endpapers restored. - An incomplete uncolored copy of the first German edition, lacking 75 ll., loss of printed area to several ll., a no. of marginal repairs, professionally cleaned and restored, a few ll. still remaining browned or soiled, late 16th or early 17th-century calf binding restored, in modern cloth case.

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