Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palaestinae, Syriae aliarumque regionum orientalium.

FUERER VON HAIMENDORF, CHRISTOPH.

Abraham Wagemann

Nuremberg

1620

First Edition. Four folding plates. Engraved portrait of author on verso of title; engraved arms prior. Large woodcut device at end. Additional engraved portrait of author on opening pastedown. Wide margins.

Blackmer Catalogue 126; Roehricht 742.

Published posthumously, this work describes a journey by the Nuremberg lawyer Christoph Fuerer von Haimendorff (1541-1610) made in 1565-66. The plates depicting Mt. Sinai, Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Holy Sepulchre. The text also includes a biography of the author in the form of a funeral oration delivered at the University of Altdorf in 1611 and a genealogy of his family. The text on page 2 contains a brief description of the tomb of Vesalius on Zante where Vesalius was buried in October 1564. Fuerer von Haimendorff had visited Zante in 1565, and this is probably the earliest description of the memorial.