Feyerabend, Sigmund. Reysbuch des Heyligen Lands. Das ist Ein gründtliche beschreibung aller und jeder Meer und Bilgerfahrten zum heyligen Lande.

AUCTION 75 | Thursday, March 08th, 2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art

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Lot 190
(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Feyerabend, Sigmund. Reysbuch des Heyligen Lands. Das ist Ein gründtliche beschreibung aller und jeder Meer und Bilgerfahrten zum heyligen Lande.

<<First edition.>> Two parts in one volume. Large woodcut printer’s devices. ff. (6), 466, (5).Evenly dampstained, title-page detached with some loss to inner margin, final few leaves detached. Contemporary vellum over thick wooden boards, wear with loss to vellum, inner hinge split. Thick folio.

Frankfurt am Main:

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,000
Compiled by the famed Frankfurt publisher Sigmund Feyerabend, a compilation of some 18 different travelogues to Palestine, as well as Egypt, Turkey and surrounding areas, dating from 12th to the 16th centuries. Authors include nobles, churchmen, merchants, a doctor and an artisan, including: Robertus Abbas, Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau, Johann zu Solms, J. Wormbser, S. von Gumppenberg, L. Rauwolf, J. Tucher, etc. "Feyerabend's Reysbuch” is not the first collection of travel reports to appear in Germany in the 16th-century, nor the first to be published by Feyerabend himself; however, it is the first collection of primarily German travel literature rather than translations from elsewhere. Moreover, it appeared at a time when the Reformation had caused a decline in Holy Land pilgrimage and attention was focussed on the New World. See Anne Simon, Sigmund Feyerabend's Das Reyßbuch deß heyligen Lands: A Study in Printing and Literary History (1998).