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Lot 72
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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1,200
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$1,152
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[LEAF BOOK - NUREMBERG CHRONICLE]. [SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)]. Liber Chronicarum. A Folio of the Nuremberg Chronicle Restored from an Incomplete Copy from the Library of Lambton Castle, England. Greenwich, CT: The Country Bookshop, 1932.
Folio. With an original leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, laid in as issued. Original drab boards, pictorial paper label on upper cover (spine worn, few stains and soiling to covers).
A SPECIAL COPY CONTAINING THE MOST FAMOUS ILLUSTRATION FROM THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE: THE DANCE OF DEATH ("DANSE MACABRE"): a single leaf, folio (432 x 286 mm), half-page wood-cut illustration after Michael Wolgemut, p. XXLXIII ("Septimas etas mudi Imago mortis"), contemporary marginalia, toning or soiling. HC *14508; BMC II, 437 (IC. 7451-3); CIBN S-161; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307.
Below the image, is a caption in Latin of a verse from Petrarch's "Letter to Giovanni Colonna," beginning with: "Nothing is better than Death, nor anything worse than an unfair Life". Chalmer, Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 57.