Florencia

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Original woodcut old colored, published in the famous "Nurnberg Chronicle", German text edition printed in Nürnberg in December 1493. Verso illustrated as well with fourteen smaller woodcuts of saints. This view of Florence is one of the earliest obtainable authentic city views, published only a few years before 1500. This woodcut of Florence was exactly published and printed in Dezember 1493 in Nurnberg at Koberger. The "Nurnberg Chronicle" was the earliest and most richly illustrated incunabula and description of the world, which was as well illustrated with a small number of authentic double page city views. The woodcuts were mostly cut by Pleydenwurff. Mended stitch wholes at the centre fold.