Up for grabs on eBay is one double-leaf out of the small Chronicle of the World by Hartmann Schedel (Latin edition). Augsburg, Schönsperger, 1497 A.D.
According to the listing, the small Chronicle of the World, written by the Nuremberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel, is one of the most important fifteenth-century German prints. The work, which was financed by the Nuremberg merchants Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, first appeared in the Latin edition in June 1493, followed by the German translation by the Nuremberg treasury scribe Georg Alt in December of the same year. In 1497, Schönsperger printed a shortened version in Augsburg, the so-called small Schedel Chronicle of the World. Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) was a German physician, humanist and historian, one of the first cartographers to make use of the printing press. Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known to Germans as Schedel's World Chronicle, published in 1493 in Nuremberg.
