LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET
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The Camille Sourget Bookshop is located at 93 rue de Seine for 20 years now, in the sixth arrondissement of Paris, where the literary and artistic heart of the capital beats. Com petence, authenticity and honesty are the commitments of this dynamic, internationally renowned 100% women’s bookshop. The bookshop publishes and sends out 4 luxurious paper catalogues a year and is also proud to be one of the most dynamic antiquarian book shops on social media through Instagram, Facebook, etc.
Librairie Camille Sourget participates in the most important international fairs, including TEFAF Maastricht, FAB Paris, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Paris International Antiquarian Book Fair, etc.
Its specialities are literary first editions and all the beautiful illustrated books that marked their time from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century in various fields such as natural sciences, architecture, travel and atlases, fashion, etc.
Hartmann SCHEDEL
Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg Chronicle.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, July 12, 1493.
The most famous European book of the Renaissance: the famous Nuremberg Chronicle, a sumptuous and large volume completed in Nuremberg on July 12, 1493, adorned with 1809 woodcuts illustrating European and Mediterranean inhabitants and cities, here in exceptional coloring and binding of the period.
Large gothic folio of 64 lines per page, (20) ll. including the xylographic title, 300 numbered leaves, and 6 unnumbered leaves, the last one blank. The 6 unnumbered leaves (one of which is blank) that should follow the colophon are bound after leaf CCLXVI here. Complete, without the final two blanks; the lower right corners of the last ten leaves were restored without affecting the text or the illustrations, the white margins of the first two and last three leaves were restored without affecting the text.
Pigskin of the time on wooden boards, spine with raised bands, covers decorated with blind-stamped frames and vegetative roll-stamps, scattered fleurons in crosshatch patterns in the center of the lower frame.
First edition
Volume preserved in its original restored binding of the period.
469 x 325 mm.
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