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Woodcut bird's-eye view, hand-colored. 19.5x51 cm (7¾x20"), on 4-page folio with text, on verso are 7 hand-colored woodcuts, with text; sheet size approx. 42x57 cm. (16½x22½"), matted & framed between double-sided plexiglass.

One of the earliest available city views of Prague, showing the town, with its many church steeples, and its surroundings. From the German edition of the Nuremburg Chronicle [Liber Chronicon - Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten], the most extensively illustrated 15th century book, with many important city views and other illustrations. On the back are woodcuts of a locust swarm, a comet, an enflamed crowd, men reading books, etc. The coloring is bright, certainly later but of uncertain date.