Schedel. [Central and Northern Europe]. [12 July 1493]

Property of the Late Gunnar Skoog

SCHEDEL, HARTMANN

[Central and Northern Europe]. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493]

Double-page woodcut map, (400 x 570mm.), a few small areas repaired or in facsimile, lower margin cut to neatline, slightly shaved at left margin

THE FIRST MODERN MAP OF CENTRAL EUROPE TO BE PRINTED. "It appears to be based on the lost map of the celebrated Cardinal Nicolaus de Cusa; according to Bagrow, it was made by Hieronymus Münzer" (Nordenskiöld).

LITERATURE:

Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 279