[SCHEDEL (Hartmann)]. [Liber chronicarum]. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus ab initio mundi. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493. Imperial folio (457 x 305 mm), spotted calf, ribbed spine with gilt fillets, red title page, mottled edges (18th century binding). First edition of the "Nuremberg Chronicle", the most famous illustrated incunabulum and "the high point in the printed illustration of books north the Alps during the XVth century" (Bettina Wagner). Mock-ups and contracts preserved in Nuremberg indicate that Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister's plan to commission the printer Anton Koberger and the physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel to produce a grandiose illustrated world history, both biblical and secular, predates 1490. The Latin edition, intended for an international audience, was printed between May 1492 and July 1493 on two or three different presses, with a print run of 1,400 copies; the German edition was completed on 23 December of the same year. Both editions feature the same illustrations: over 1,800 engravings printed on 645 woodcuts designed and engraved by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including some by the young Albrecht Dürer, godson of Anton Koberger and Wolgemut's apprentice from 1486 to 1489, including the majestic Last Judgement. The work contains two double-page maps: a world map based on the cosmography of Pomponius Mela and a map of Central Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolaus Khyrpffs. It is also adorned with numerous views of cities (including 27 double-page views) which, for German cities at least, are based on exact observations and faithfully represent reality. A fine, well-preserved copy, complete with [5] ff. on Sarmatia and the Kingdom of Poland between ff. 266 and 267. The volume was decorated at the time with a large fleurine painted in red and blue at the incipit and 24 large initials painted in red or blue in the table and on f. 268. Some old handwritten annotations in the margins. Name and title of the author (Hartmanno Schedel Nürenbergensi Doctore Patavino) written in pen at the bottom of the title and signature of L. Janssius dated 1635 on the second leaf. From the libraries of Théodore de Jonghe (1861, II, no. 3558) and Adolphe Grandsire, with bookplate. Collation: [20] ff (title and table), 266 ff (ff. 260-261 bl.), [1] bl. ff, [5] ff (De Sarmacia), ff. 267-299, [1] f. (colophon); i.e. [323] ff (out of [328]). Missing are ff. 260-261, which are entirely blank with the exception of the running title and the foliation, as well as the 3 blank ff. [55/6] and [61/5-6]; the first three were replaced by 18th-century blank leaves at the time of binding. That said, the work is complete with all the text and illustrations. Two small wormholes continued as a single hole in the lateral margin of the first leaves, a few small spots of light spotting and halos, angular loss on f. 127, tear without loss at the bottom of f. 172, small hole in the margin of f. 177, small marginal repair on f. 203 and the last leaf. Minor spotting to binding with small loss to one headpiece. ISTC, is00307000 - HC, *14508 - Goff, S-307 - Pr 2084 - BMC, II, 437 - GW, M40784 - CIBN, S161 - Brunet, I, 1860 - A. Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Amst, 1976 - C. Reske, The Production of Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, Wiesbaden, 2000.