94 190 (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.[Tobler 12.] Frankfurt am Main, (Sigmund Feyerabend), 1584. $2000-3000 ❧ 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). 191 (ISRAEL, LAND OF). Yoseph ben Yissachar. Yosef Da’ath [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. MAP OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL together with other woodcut plates and text- illustrations striving to clarify apparent errors in Rashi’s commentary with the use of early manuscript texts. ff.1-60, 65-152. Browned and stained, few outer leaves frayed, neat repairs. Later boards. Sm. 4to.[Vinograd, Prague 168.] Prague, Gershom Katz, 1609. $2000-3000 ❧ This important map of the Land of Israel is based on Mordechai Jaffe’s earlier effort that appeared in his Levushim (1590-1604). Here however, R. Joseph’s map is more clearly defined: the mountains are easily visible and the cities are shown by towers and decorated with flags - an altogether sophisticated representation. The details of the map were entirely based on information derived from the Bible and its commentaries, for, as E. & G. Wajntraub point out in their Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp.42-3, “it was not possible to draw eye- witness reports, and all geographical data is based on geographical knowledge of the Bible (only).” See Z. Vilnay, Hamapah Ha’ivrit shel Eretz Yisrael (1968) p. 15 (illustrated).