ID 1105654
Lot 70 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
Liber chronicarum translated by Georg Alt: Das Buch der Croniken unnd Geschichten. Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, 1500.
The second of Schönsperger's pirated German editions of the Nuremberg Chronicle published in Augsburg, containing more illustrations than those in the original Nuremberg editions. Being a piracy, and without access to the original blocks, Schönsperger employed artists to make new woodcuts. This allowed Schönsperger to use a smaller format than that of the Nuremberg editions. Numerous woodcuts are repeated in this edition of the Chronicle: one showing a walled city appears five times, representing England, Poland, Geneva, Milan, and Tiberias, while another woodcut was used for Mainz, Naples, Lyons, Bologna, and Aquileia; another of a portrait of a scholar holding a book in his lap and a pair of spectacles in his hand is used for nine different persons, including Paris, Virgil, Sextus Julius Africanus, and Rhazes, all of whom belong to the period before the invention of spectacles. Because it was published in German, considerable emphasis was put on the German-speaking regions to increase its popularity and readership. BMC II, 375 (IB. 6422); BSB-Ink S-199; Goff S-311; HC *14512; Klebs 890.3; Schreiber 5207; ISTC is00311000.
Chancery folio (305 x 213 mm). 329 (of 332) leaves, profusely illustrated with one full-page woodcut, a half-page world-map, woodcut city views, portraits, and scenes, 2 xylographic title-pages (without *1.2 map of Europe and without blank KK6, the register bound in at beginning, some light browning and staining, a few marginal tears or minor chipping). Near contemporary blind rolled German calf over wooden boards, remnants of brass clasps (rebacked). Provenance: Mr. Haag, Oberwesel (1908 gift inscription to:) – Schönburg Castle – T.J. Oakley Rhinelander (no signs of provenance, excepting remains of bookplate) – Wolfgang A. Herz (his sale Christie's New York, 9 December 2009, lot 42).
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