- 3104
Breydenbach, Bernhard von (c.1440-1497).
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- Peregrinationes. Mainz: E. Reuwich, 11 February 1486
Chancery folio (285 x 210mm.), 164 leaves [a b6 c2+2+2+2 d e2 f-h2+2 i-u8 x10 y2+2+2 z A8], 44 lines variable, rubricated throughout, 5- and 4-line initials in red and blue, illustration: woodcut frontispiece, 7 folding topographical views (some imperfect, see below), woodcuts in text, binding: seventeenth-century vellum (c. 1700), lacking most of the large woodcut of Venice and a large part of that of Jerusalem, small tear towards bottom of gutter of woodcut of Parenzo, woodcut of Candia strengthened at fold, woodcut of Rhodes cut to border at left hand and repaired at fold with slight loss, including caption, 2 woodcuts cropped at top, frontispiece mounted; sold not subject to return
Provenance
Colbert Library
Literature
HC *3956; GW 5075; BMC i 43; Bodleian XVc. B-552; BSB-Ink B909; Goff B1189; Schreiber V 3628; Davies 1; Campbell, Maps 65
Catalogue Note
first edition of this celebrated work. The text includes a brief extract on the fall of Constantinople by Isidore of Kiev taken from a volume published in 1484 by Koberger (Antoninus Florentinus, Chronicon, Goff A778), an anonymous extract on the capture of Negroponte in 1470 and of Ydruntini, and on the siege of Rhodes by Guillaume Caorsin (the longest of these additional texts), together with a short piece of medical advice for pilgrims, which, aptly, begins with how to deal with sea-sickness. In this copy there are a few manuscript marginalia.