Schönsperger, Johann (sold) (Hans)
Johann (Hans) Schönsperger (c. 1455 - February 25, 1521) was a German printer and publisher living and working in Augsburg. Little is known of his youth or education. He set up a printing shop in 1481 in partnership with goldsmith Thomas Rüger and with his stepfather Johann Bämler. He would be the dominant publisher in Augsburg for the end of the fifteenth century, but would go bankrupt in 1507. He would be kept afloat by his appointment as court printer to Emperor Maxmilian I, publishing for him a highly regarded prayer book in 1513. Schönsperger is now remembered primarily for his Bibles, and for his abridged (and pirated) edition of Schedel's world chronicle.
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A Rare Fifteenth-Century Map of the World.
Der welt das xiii blat.
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This is the rare 1496 first edition of the rare Hans Schönsperger world map, a reduced version of the map appearing in Hartmann Schedel's 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. Rarer than its 1493 model, Schönsperger's map is one of the earliest acquirable printed maps of the world, one of only a handful of world maps printed in the fifteenth century. (more details)