SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (448 x 308mm). Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6] (1/1 xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 2/1 index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 55/6 blank, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon, 61/5,6 blank). 323 leaves (of 326, without blanks 61/5,6 and 55/6), quire 55 bound at end. 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos. CCLVIIII -CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110 bG (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockrell's count, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century , Kelmscott Press: 1897, pp.35-6), initials in red and blue, first leaf, register and a few other leaves rubricated, faint colour on a few woodcuts. (Neat repaired tears occasionally into text or woodcut, about 4 leaves partly remargined, some light staining, heavier in quires 39-41.) Near contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, metal corner and centre pieces over red painted background (small wormholes, tears at spine and front cover, without clasps, one catchplate renewed, later endpaper). Provenance : occasional early annotations (washed) -- Muri Benedictine monastery, Switzerland, Abbot Hieronymus (booklabel, stamps) -- Alfred Aspland (sale, Sotheby's, 19th January 1895, lot 611) -- Sir J. Swinburne (?7th Baronet, 1831-1914), inscription 'Bought at Sir J. Swinburne's sale, Capheaton Hall, Newcastle, 26 July 1915' -- E.P. Goldschmidt (booklabel). FIRST EDITION of the Liber Chronicarum , the most extensively illustrated work of the fifteenth century which numbered among its artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer godson of Koberger. HC *14508; BMC II, 437 (IC.7451-3); Goff S-307.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (448 x 308mm). Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6] (1/1 xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 2/1 index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 55/6 blank, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon, 61/5,6 blank). 323 leaves (of 326, without blanks 61/5,6 and 55/6), quire 55 bound at end. 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos. CCLVIIII -CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110 bG (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockrell's count, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century , Kelmscott Press: 1897, pp.35-6), initials in red and blue, first leaf, register and a few other leaves rubricated, faint colour on a few woodcuts. (Neat repaired tears occasionally into text or woodcut, about 4 leaves partly remargined, some light staining, heavier in quires 39-41.) Near contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, metal corner and centre pieces over red painted background (small wormholes, tears at spine and front cover, without clasps, one catchplate renewed, later endpaper). Provenance : occasional early annotations (washed) -- Muri Benedictine monastery, Switzerland, Abbot Hieronymus (booklabel, stamps) -- Alfred Aspland (sale, Sotheby's, 19th January 1895, lot 611) -- Sir J. Swinburne (?7th Baronet, 1831-1914), inscription 'Bought at Sir J. Swinburne's sale, Capheaton Hall, Newcastle, 26 July 1915' -- E.P. Goldschmidt (booklabel). FIRST EDITION of the Liber Chronicarum , the most extensively illustrated work of the fifteenth century which numbered among its artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer godson of Koberger. HC *14508; BMC II, 437 (IC.7451-3); Goff S-307.
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