SCHEDEL, HARTMANN
[Liber Chronicarum. Folios XII and XIII, the Ptolemaic world map]. Secunda Etas Mundi. From the Liber Chronicarum the first Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493]. Extracted from the first edition of the work. Woodcuts, likely by Michael Wolgemut and Hanns Pleydenwurff, printed on two conjoined leaves, versos with printed text and illustrations. Stitch-holes along the centerfold (as usual) infilled, restored clean marginal tear in lower left margin, generally a very clean example. Framed, not examined out of frame.
The map bears seven scenes to the left of the map depicting the curious and outré beings who were then thought to inhabit the further reaches of the world, with a further fourteen such on the verso. The map itself copies that in Pomponius Mela's Cosmographia of 1482. Noah's three sons, Ham, Shem and Japhet, support the map, and twelve wind heads inhabit the border. The text is by Hartmann Schedel, who owned a large private library on which he presumably drew for his research. This is the great encyclopaedic historical work of the period, and is arguably the first best-seller (some 1500 copies of the Latin edition were produced, and it sold out quite quickly). Campbell 220; Shirley 19; World Encompassed 44.
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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN
[Liber Chronicarum. Folios XII and XIII, the Ptolemaic world map]. Secunda Etas Mundi. From the Liber Chronicarum the first Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493]. Extracted from the first edition of the work. Woodcuts, likely by Michael Wolgemut and Hanns Pleydenwurff, printed on two conjoined leaves, versos with printed text and illustrations. Stitch-holes along the centerfold (as usual) infilled, restored clean marginal tear in lower left margin, generally a very clean example. Framed, not examined out of frame.
The map bears seven scenes to the left of the map depicting the curious and outré beings who were then thought to inhabit the further reaches of the world, with a further fourteen such on the verso. The map itself copies that in Pomponius Mela's Cosmographia of 1482. Noah's three sons, Ham, Shem and Japhet, support the map, and twelve wind heads inhabit the border. The text is by Hartmann Schedel, who owned a large private library on which he presumably drew for his research. This is the great encyclopaedic historical work of the period, and is arguably the first best-seller (some 1500 copies of the Latin edition were produced, and it sold out quite quickly). Campbell 220; Shirley 19; World Encompassed 44.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 11, 2023