(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Comprehensive History of Jerusalem from the Creation until the Sixteenth-Century This is a rather unique work in that it guides the reader through the ages, from earliest Biblical times through the successive Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, Mongol and finally Turkish eras. Accompanying the narrative are delightful, if somewhat fanciful woodcut illustrations. Three years earlier, German humanist Sebastian Brant [or Brandt] (1457/8-1521)published a Latin edition of his book De civitate Hierosolyma (Basel, 1515). According to Laor, the woodcut map contained therein, a small, imaginary view of ancient Jerusalem, was drawn by Brant. See E. Laor, Maps of the Holy Land (1986), p. 140, no. 964. *This volume bound with: Von Pleningen, Dietrich, Trans. Gay Pliny des Andern Lobsagung…vom heyligen Kayser Traiano [“Pliny’s Panegyric of Emperor Trajan”]. Translated from Latin to German. Title in black and red between architectural columns; at bottom, Pliny presenting his book to Emperor Trajan. Four-piece woodcut borders. Scattered Latin marginalia. ff. (51). Some browning. [Not in Adams] (N.p., 1520).