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Nuremberg Chronicle 1st Edition Wanted

We all know the history of the famous Nuremberg Chronicle but do we know how much the fabled 15th century Nuremberg Chronicle 1st edition by Hartmann Schedel is worth? Nuremberg Chronicle 1st edition auction prices have been all over the place for decades and we’d like to document them below.  By the way, we can obtain up to at least $50,000 for you for your Nuremberg Chronicle 1st edition. Contact us today at [email protected].

2017 — Nuremberg Chronicle 1st edition:  $62,500

2015 — Nuremberg Chronicle 1st edition: $48,000, $38,000, $34,362 and $24,000

Incredibly, by the number of volumes that sold in 2015, we can see that a book from 1493 is not rare.  Thus, the prices are low compared to other important books from yesteryear (example: a Christopher Columbus from after this book is worth up to $750,000).  See the Robb Report article below regarding our auction house’s auctioning of this book:

http://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/rare-1494-christopher-columbus-book-detailing-discovery-new-world-be-auctioned-265160/

BY REBEKAH BELL ON JANUARY 24, 2017

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To auction, buy, consign or sell your Nuremberg Chronicle 1st edition for at least $50,000 by Hartmann Schedel aka Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles 1st Edition) aka Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History) for the highest prices realized in the industry, please contact Nate D. Sanders at (310) 440-2982 or email him at [email protected].

Christopher Columbus needs no introduction. In 1492, the intrepid explorer, who set out to find a westward route to Asia, made history when he discovered the New World instead. On January 30, an exceptionally rare 1494 book which includes a letter penned by Columbus and addressed to Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles, Calif. The book contains an in-depth account of the discoveries Columbus made during his first trip to the New World in 1492.

Titled “Christophorus Columbus, De insulis nuper in mari Indico inventis,” the 56-page hardbound book gives an in-depth account of the people and places the explorer encountered on his first trip to the New World. The historic book also features several woodcuts designed by German artist Albrecht Durer. The first representations of the New World, the woodcut engravings highlight the arrival of the Spanish, a crude map of an island, the construction of a fort on the island of Hispaniola, and Columbus’ caravel under full sail. In addition, a rendition of Ferdinand of Aragon holding the shields of Castile and León forms the title woodcut.

The highlight of the book is a letter Columbus wrote in March 1493 while sailing back to Europe on the Nina. The letter gives a vivid account of the mysterious and marvelous New World. “There are many spices and vast mines of gold and other metals in this island,” Columbus wrote. “They are so unsuspicious and so generous with what they possess, that no one who had not seen it would believe it. [They] show so much love that they would give their very hearts. As for monsters, I have found no trace of them except at the point in the second isle as one enters the Indies, which is inhabited by a people considered in all the isles as most ferocious, who eat human flesh.”