Worldmap ‘Secunda Etas Mundi’ from the “Liber Chronicarum” incunable. Nuremberg, Hartmann Schedel, 1493. Famous world map by Hartmann Schedel, published in the first Latin 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. It is rarely encountered with contemporary hand colouring. 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!