Die Reise ins Helige Land: Ein Reisebericht aus dem Jahre 1483
by von Breydenbach, Bernhard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
51 pages, 15 woodcuts, 2 fold-out maps (Venice, 9 pages, 65" long; Jerusalem, 6 1/2 pages, 50" long) and 6 pages of text in facsimile. Dust jacket reproduction of Reuwich's woodcut map of Civitas Iherusalem.
First edition of Guido Pressler's 1961 facsimile of Bernhard von Breydenbach's (1440–1497) famous 1486 account in German of his pilgrimage from Venice to the Holy Land and Egypt form April of 1483 to January 1484, appearing first as Peregrinatio in terram sanctam.
Von Breydenbach was accompanied by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, and Reuwich's woodcut fold-out maps (the first in the West and the first accurate topographical representation of Jerusalem), drawings and reproductions of Arabic letters represented a major development in the art of printing and in disseminating geographical information. This book is "one of the seminal books pf early printing." (Jeffrey Smith, UT Austin)
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- Bookseller
- Setton Book Collection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 197
- Title
- Die Reise ins Helige Land
- Author
- von Breydenbach, Bernhard
- Illustrator
- Erhard Reuwich
- Format/Binding
- Reddish-brown cloth, one-quarter binding with white spine, author, title gilt-stamped, woodcut of ship on front board.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Guido Pressler
- Place of Publication
- Wiesbaden
- Date Published
- 1961
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pilgrimage, 15th century, woodcuts, Levant, Holy Land, travel literature, Islam, Venice, Jerusalem, Egypt, Late Middle Ages
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval History;
- Size
- 8 3/8" x 12"
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