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Auction 51 · Lot 346

HARTMANN SCHEDEL. Two folio leaves with woodcut images: The Menorah. * the Temple of Jerusalem.

Estimate
$600–$800
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(NUREMBERG CHRONICLE).

Place

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493

Description

Each matted

summary

In his celebrated Liber Chronicarum, Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), a German humanist and historian, divided world history into six ages, from Creation until the present. The book owes its extreme popularity to the fine woodcuts by the artists, Michael Wolgemuth and Wiliam Preydenwurff.
Rubens 1350-51.
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