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Strasbourg - View - Sheet CXL (140) from the "Schedelsche Weltchronik", Latin edition, with woodcuts and a detailed view of Strasbourg, engraver Michael Wolgemut a. Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshop), by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg 1493; browned / stained / light-stained / creased; inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand at the bottom margin; left margin backed and restored; lesion to the right of the tower; mounting residues on the verso; unframed (sheet size approx. 43.5 x 31.5cm)

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Strasbourg - View - Sheet CXL (140) from the "Schedelsche Weltchronik", Latin edition, with woodcuts and a detailed view of Strasbourg, engraver Michael Wolgemut a. Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshop), by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg 1493; browned / stained / light-stained / creased; inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand at the bottom margin; left margin backed and restored; lesion to the right of the tower; mounting residues on the verso; unframed (sheet size approx. 43.5 x 31.5cm)

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