Woodcut, sheet 440x590 mm, hand painted in watercolours, Latin text; the sheet depicts the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with the angel in the foreground showing the way (folium XXI) and on the reverse shows the genealogy of the sons of Abraham, Jectan, Medan, Midian, Jesboth and Sue, and a representation of the meeting of Abraham with Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God who blessed Abraham saying "Blessed be Abraham of the Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be the Most High...", to whom Abraham then gave a tithe of everything. Folium XXII: depicts the figure of Abraham and a view of Cairo (called Memphys) with the sacrifice of Isaac on the reverse of the sheet, the effigy of King Zoroastes at the bottom of the text. Taken from "Liber Chronicarum" by Schedel Hartman, commonly called the "Nuremberg Chronicle": it was the first work with real representations of the cities of the world (about 2000 woodcuts) and was enormously successful, such as to be considered a milestone in the development of geographical knowledge. It was printed in two editions, the first Latin in July 1493 in about 1500 copies, the second, German, in December of the same year, in about 800 copies. The engravings are the work of Michael Wohlgemuth, teacher of Albrecht Duerer, his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and the young Duerer himself. Walter L. Strauss in the text Woodcuts and woodblocks (New York: Abaris book, 1980) attributes precisely some woodcuts to the young artist. Excellent copy with traces of glue and evident restorations along the central internal margin, four handwritten notes of a temporal nature in roundels on the lower margin in brown ink.