SCHEDEL, H. (ED).

Liber Chronicarum - The Nuremberg Chronicle. Single leaf, Folium CXCVII. Page headed "Setra etas mudi".

      C. Koberger: 1493 1st ed. 2 pp, 4 hand coloured woodcuts. 16.5" x 11.5", good margins but shorter at the head. One small stain o/w clean in old matte.. The displayed side shows hand coloured wood engravings of part of a walled town with towers linked by a gantry, and a (?) saint giving communion in a church. Photos available.. The Nuremberg Chronicle - Liber chronicarum - was the most ambitious book printing project undertaken since the invention of movable metal typesetting, only four decades earlier.. It was also the most successful attempt to chronicle the history of the known world from the beginning until that time..