World - World map; Hartmann Schedel - Das ander alter der Welt - 1481-1500
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World map Das ander alter der Welt by Hartmann Schedel, published in December 1493 in the first German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a 43 × 56 cm uncoloured woodcut incunable with very good condition and minor restorations.
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Worldmap ‘Das ander alter der Welt’ from the “Buch der Chroniken” incunable.
Nuremberg, Hartmann Schedel, December 1493.
Famous world map by Hartmann Schedel, published in the first GERMAN edition of the incunable Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), 1493. Issued just one year after Columbus’s first voyage, the map depicts the Old World in a Ptolemaic projection, showing Europe, Asia and Africa before the discovery of the New World was widely understood.
The map is surrounded by twelve wind heads and figures of the sons of Noah, symbolising the peopling of the world after the Flood. Both the recto and verso are richly decorated with woodcut illustrations of mythical and “monstrous” races, echoing medieval beliefs about distant lands.
As Tooley and Bricker note: “Asia, like Africa, was supposed to be full of bizarre humanoid creatures. Such legendary beings from ancient cosmographies were given new life in printed books like Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493.”
(Tooley and Bricker)
Dimensions: 43 x 56 cm.
Condition: The condition of this incunabula map can be described as very good, with a few small restored wormholes and a small restoration in the lower middle fold. You don’t often see the map in this condition! Rare and very sought after!
Attention to US buyers: due to new regulations we only ship with DHL or UPS to the US, therefor higher shipping costs apply!
Worldmap ‘Das ander alter der Welt’ from the “Buch der Chroniken” incunable.
Nuremberg, Hartmann Schedel, December 1493.
Famous world map by Hartmann Schedel, published in the first GERMAN edition of the incunable Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), 1493. Issued just one year after Columbus’s first voyage, the map depicts the Old World in a Ptolemaic projection, showing Europe, Asia and Africa before the discovery of the New World was widely understood.
The map is surrounded by twelve wind heads and figures of the sons of Noah, symbolising the peopling of the world after the Flood. Both the recto and verso are richly decorated with woodcut illustrations of mythical and “monstrous” races, echoing medieval beliefs about distant lands.
As Tooley and Bricker note: “Asia, like Africa, was supposed to be full of bizarre humanoid creatures. Such legendary beings from ancient cosmographies were given new life in printed books like Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493.”
(Tooley and Bricker)
Dimensions: 43 x 56 cm.
Condition: The condition of this incunabula map can be described as very good, with a few small restored wormholes and a small restoration in the lower middle fold. You don’t often see the map in this condition! Rare and very sought after!
Attention to US buyers: due to new regulations we only ship with DHL or UPS to the US, therefor higher shipping costs apply!
Details
Era
1400-1900
Number of objects
1
Country
World
Geographical specification
World map
Map maker/publisher
Hartmann Schedel
Map/book title
Das ander alter der Welt
Period
1481-1500
Condition
Good
Technique
Wood cut
Additional Information
Rare 1493 world map from the first German edition of Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, richly
Map colour
Uncoloured map
Height
43 cm
Width
56 cm
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