Die Heiligen Reysen gein Jherusalem zu dem heiligen Grab …
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 309
BREYDENBACH, BERNHARD VON.
Die Heiligen Reysen gein Jherusalem zu dem heiligen Grab …
[Speyer: Peter Drach der Jüngere, circa 1505]
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
PRICE REALIZED $32,000
Breydenbach’s account of his 1483 pilgrimage from Mainz to the Holy Land is the first illustrated travel book printed. Fellow traveler Erhard Reuwich, the first painter known to have published a book, created its fine woodcuts. His illustrations include the first use of panoramas to depict cities.
Leaving in April 1483 and arriving back in January 1484, Breydenbach and his colleagues traveled first to Venice, where they stayed for three weeks. They then took a ship for Corfu, Modon and Rhodes - all still Venetian possessions. After Jerusalem and Bethlehem and other sights of the Holy Land, they went to Mount Sinai and Cairo. Following a boat down the Nile to Rosetta, they journeyed back to Venice.