Rare books.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Bob Rodriguez maps and rare book leaves
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0288
Abstract
This collection comprises 25 printed items: 23 historic maps and 2 rare book leaves from the private collection of Bob Rodriguez.
Dates:
1847-1911; 1493-1497
Nuremberg Chronicle leaf, folio CCXXI, 1493 July 12
Item — Folder 9: Series 2, Object: 1
Identifier: 2
Item Details
Nuremberg Chronicle leaf, Folio CCXXI. First edition, printed by Anton Koberger. Slightly cropped.
Dates:
1493 July 12
Nuremberg Chronicle leaf, folio CXXXVIII, 1497
Item — Folder 9: Series 2, Object: 2
Identifier: 2
Item Details
Nuremberg Chronicle leaf, Folio CXXXVIII. Pirated edition printed by Johann Schönsperger.
Dates:
1497
Rare Book Leaves, 1493-1497
Series
Identifier: 2
Series 2 Overview
The second series, Rare Book Leaves, comprises two incunable leaves. Both are from printings of the Nuremberg Chronicle, an encyclopedic "universal history" of great significance compiled by Hartmann Schedel. The work is also known as Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) or Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel's World History).
Dates:
1493-1497