This is a facsimile of the 600 page illustrated manuscript, plus a companion book of annotations and commentary and an index to the people and subjects in the manuscript, housed in a slipcase.

The clothbound hardcover facsimile has a mild bump to the base of the spine, it is otherwise as new. The 88-page softcover companion book is glossy and new. The slipcase is Near Fine with mild shelf and corner wear.

From the publisher:

Timetunnel to the 15th century: 1493's must-have history book and city guide by Hartmann Schedel.

Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik, or Chronicle of the World (better known today as the Nuremberg Chronicle, after the German city in which it was created), was a groundbreaking encyclopedic work and at the time the most lavishly illustrated book ever printed in Europe.

Both a historical reference work and a contemporary inventory of urban culture at the end of the 15th century, the Chronicle was to have a remarkable influence on the cultural, ecclesiastical and intellectual history of the Middle Ages. It was particularly notable for its vast quantity of woodcut illustrations (more than 1,800) depicting events from the Bible, human monstrosities, portraits of kings, queens, saints and martyrs, and allegorical pictures of miracles, as well as views of a great number of "modern" cities, many of which had never been documented before.