Schedel, Hartmann.

First edition, imperial folio (467 x 315mm.), 325 leaves (of 326, without final blank), double column, 64 lines plus headline, xylographic title-page, 1809 woodcut illustrations, town views and maps (some full-page or double-page, of which 1164 are repeats) by Wolgemuth and Pleydenwurff, seventeenth-century Dutch vellum with blind-stamped centrepiece, in modern folding buckram box, first few leaves repaired in gutter and with a few small marginal wormholes, a few marginal paper repairs, occasional light staining, some leaves slightly soft through water-damage, map of Europe repaired in margins, upper joint cracking

Edmund Parker, early inscription "Liber Edmundi Parkari clerici teste Thoma Parkaro f[ratro?] suo" at head of title-page and another inscription by him on final verso (probably the Edmund Parker of Browsholme, Lancashire, who drowned in Cambridge in 1572); Adam Henrich Lackmann (1694-1754), professor of history at Kiel University, inscription at foot of title (a further inscription at foot of title-page erased); two manuscript notes in Latin about the book, one on flyleaf by Lackmann, the other on the title-page

HC *14508; BMC ii 437; Goff S307

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Schedel's Chronicle, a history of the world from the Creation to his own time, is remarkable for its illustrations, its graphic designs, its printing and for its woodcuts and descriptions of cities. There are one hundred and two early views of towns, and cities, thirty-two of which are among the first authentic panoramas ever made.  It also included the famous early map of Europe (by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Cusa) and a ptolemaic world map [Shirley 19].The many woodcut illustrations include portraits of kings, queens, saints and martyrs, and allegorical pictures of miracles.