Das ander alter der Werlt - Antique map

Author: Schedel, Hartmann

Publisher: Koberger

Published: Nuremberg

Publishing year: 1493

The World."Das ander alter der Werlt". Orig. woodcut. H. Schedel after C. Ptolemy's map of the Ancient World. Published in Nuremberg by A. Koberger, 1493. With decorative border with 12 windheads, figures of Ham, Shem and Japhet in the corners and 7 mythological creatures to the left of the map. 38:51,5 cm (15 x 20 1/4 inch.).

Shirley: The Mapping of the World, map 19. - Whole doublepage, with a Ptolemaic world map, from H. Schedel's Das Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten (German edition of Liber Chronicarum). - The title at the top almost entirely cut off, upper left corner torn (ca. 1,5:4,5 cm affecting the picture) and professionally restored and retouched, as well as some minor cracks in the centerfold.

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