Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493
Liber cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus.
First edition and an outstanding copy of the first illustrated encyclopedia published at the dawn of the discovery period. As a comprehensive contemporary picture of geographical and historical knowledge, the 'Nuremberg Chronicle' as it is called, offers nothing less than a history of the world, and, in its own fashion..... More