Fancy-goods from England as well as from Paris and Vienna, toys from nuremberg, ornaments of jade and lapis-lazuli from Kashgar, precious stones from Ceylon, and gems from pearl-producing Penang.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
After about 1472 Mainz was easily surpassed as a centre of printing by Strassburg, Cologne, Augsburg, and nuremberg.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The Hypnerotomachia is probably almost as common a book as the nuremberg Chronicle or the First Folio Shakespeare, and thus its merits have become known to all lovers of old books.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard