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The De Orbe Novo Collection
7:30 AM PT - Dec 3rd, 2009
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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Das Buch der Croni

SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. Imperial folio (451 x 310 mm). 297ff. (of 298, lacking one blank), [1]-[11], f.I-Blat CCLXXXVI). Translated by George Alt. Table and parts of text in double column. 62 lines (variable) and headline, Gothic letter, xylographic title-page. 645 hand-colored woodcut illustrations by Michael Pleydenwurff and Willem Wohlgemut repeated to a total of 1809, some full-page and others double-page, a double page map of Europe at verso of colophon. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, six raised bands with ms. title to first and second compartment, two brass clasps, blue edges. Condition: tear in world map at lower left neatly repaired, a few short repairs in Europe, section of map at lower left restored; tear in text of fols. CLXXII & CCLXXXV repaired; some other repairs in margins, occasionally affecting text, paragraph of text on fol. CLXIX verso crossed through; some stains and marginal soiling, lacking a blank leaf before the map of Europe; lower joint splitting, neat repair to upper joint, pigskin lightly soiled, corners slightly worn. Provenance: unidentified armorial stamp on title-page; early inscription to title-page effaced. Acquistion: sale Sotheby's London, 6 June 2000, lot 124, $176,720 first edition in german. the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, fully colored by a contemporary hand. The German edition printed simultaneously with the original Latin edition, the Liber Chronicarum, of July 1493. However, George Alt's translation was issued some five months later, on 23 December. The maps and views are all by or after Michael Wohlgemut and his stepson Willem Plydenwurff and are among the first to appear in print. Wohlgemut, an important painter and xylographer, is perhaps best known as having been an early teacher of Albrecht Dürer, who apprenticed in Wohlgemut's workshop from 1486 to 1489. It is believed that Dürer, also Koberger's godson, was involved in the production of several of the illustrations in Schedel's work. The significance of Wohlgemut's and Pleydenwurff's innovations for the development of a new woodcut style, also to be seen in their "Schatzbehalter" of 1491, is emphasized by the fact that they are the first artists ever to be named in the colophon of a book. The Chronicle is filled with woodcuts of exceptionally high quality depicting a vast range of Biblical and historical subjects, and including many detailed views of contemporary European cities, which are of great topographic interest. A number of the major European Cities are referenced, including Rome, Venice, Paris, Vienna, Florence, Genoa, Saltzburg, Krakow, Breslau, Budapest, Prague, and major cities in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, as well as a number of cities in what would become the German Empire. The text covers a widespread history of the world from Creation to the time of its publication. It encompasses not only the Old and New Testaments, and classical and medieval history, but such recent and contemporary events as the invention of printing in Mainz, the exploration of the Atlantic and of Africa and the heresy of Wycliffe and the Hussites. This vernacular German edition was the first history of the world printed in any language other than Latin, and it is notably rarer than the Latin edition, having been printed in a considerably smaller edition. In the past 30 years auction records retain 35 sold of the German edition to over 188 of the Latin. BMC II, p.437; HC *14510; Goff S309; Klebs 890.1; Proctor 2086; Schreiber 5205

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