Creator
Ellen Shaffer
Title
The Nuremberg Chronicle. A Pictorial World History from the Creation to 1493
Coverage
Los Angeles
Publisher
Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop
Date
1950
Subject
Edition of 300
Description
Leaf book containing an original leaf from the 1497 Latin Augsburg reprint of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Shaffer’s introduction includes a census of copies in North America of fifteenth-century editions.
This copy was formerly owned by Jacob L. Chernofsky (1928-2004), managing editor of AB Antiquarian Bookman’s Weekly from 1972 to 1999. It is accompanied by the original prospectus.