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Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
Breydenbach, Bernard von, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.

Breydenbach, Bernard von

Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, 29 July 1490. [Spire]. Peter Drach.
“The first illustrated book of travel ever printed” (Fairfax Murray), the first artist’s book, and the first printed travel report of the Middle East.

Fabulous example, complete with all the folding views and in a contemporary binding, of one of the most famous illustrated incunables, Breydenbach’s is the first work ever to feature folding plates and the first illustrated travel book, it is also the first time an Arabic alphabet appears; this is the first edition printed by Peter Drach, and is illustrated with the original engravings of the Mainz edition, this is the second Latin edition.

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Folio (313 x 210 mm). Large initial “R” of 14 lines wood engraved with, in the center, the arms of Berthold von Henneberg-Römhild (1442-1504), Archbishop of Mainz and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. Complete, a-n8 [“o” quire never exists] [map of Jerusalem in 6 leaves] p10: thus 120 leaves (in keeping with Fairfax Murray and the Gesamt Katalog). Contemporary German binding, blindtooled calf, boards decorated with triple broad frames forming compartments, spine in white blindtooled pigskin (probably from the early 17th century), lettering piece from the 17th or 18th century, presumably contemporary with the rebacking, original copper clasps. Minimal break in the margin of leaf h1, restorations to the folds of some plates. Scuffed binding.

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Engraved ex-libris at foot of a2 cipher “DHI”, the date of 1509 and a coat of arms with a griffin, and numerous near contemporary marginal annotations of one or two lines, quotation of a verse by Seneca excerpts from Thyeste on the back pastedown in brown ink by a 16th century hand; later with Thomas Scheler, Paris (1994); the private collection of Bernard Malle

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