1548 Heinrich Vogtherr (the Elder) (1490-1556): Folio with woodcuts: Portents of Doom, Raining Corn, Earthquake

Depicts Portents of Doom - Raining Corn and Earthquake of 829

Folio published in 1548.

Wonderful woodcut leaf from the exceedingly scarce first edition of the great Stumpf Chronicle, one of the greatest illustrated works of the early to mid 16th Century.

Heinrich Vogtherr (the Elder) (1490 in Dillingen an der Donau – 1556 in Vienna) was an artist, printer, poet and medical author of the Reformation period.

Hans Asper is believed to have undertaken the portraits and coats of arms.