Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist Ein Reisebuch, ueber di gantze Heilige Schrifft. ff. (14), 240, (7). * <<BOUND WITH:>> Ber das Buch Joshua. ff. 34. * Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. (4), 102, (14), 15, (3), 14-24.

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 312

BUENTING, HEINRICH.

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist Ein Reisebuch, ueber di gantze Heilige Schrifft. ff. (14), 240, (7). * <<BOUND WITH:>> Ber das Buch Joshua. ff. 34. * Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. (4), 102, (14), 15, (3), 14-24.

Ten double-page and two single page maps. Title printed in red and black. Variously lightly stained, few leaves slightly shorter, few neat marginal repairs, marginalia. Contemporary vellum over wooden boards, wormed and rebacked. Folio.

Magdeburg: 1594

Est: $12,000 - $18,000

PRICE REALIZED $19,000

The German theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606) is famed for this work first published in 1581. It provides the most complete summary of biblical geography available and describes the Holy Land by following the travels of various notables from the Bible. In addition to conventional maps (Holy Land, Egypt, and views of Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon), the book also contains the three celebrated figurative maps: Europe in the form of a crowned and robed woman; Asia as the winged horse Pegasus and most famously a World map showing the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa on a clover-leaf projection with Jerusalem at the center, with the coast of the New World appearing far left.