Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg chronicle), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493, Rare Books collection

This chronicle is a Christian history of the world from Creation to the date of the book’s printing. It became a bestseller, not least for its 1800 woodcuts – some involving the hand of a young Albrecht Dürer. Its world map is famous for being the last such map produced in Europe before the regular inclusion of the Americas (visited by Christopher Columbus the year before, in 1492).