Cotovicus, Johannes (d. 1629).

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum, in quo variarum gentium mores et instituta. Antwerp: Hieronymus Verdussius, 1619

4to (237 x 167mm.), [32], 518, [18]pp., illustration: engraved title-vignette, 3 engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations, 4 printed folding tables, binding: old blind-stamped vellum, spine in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, lacking a folding table (Blackmer calls for 5), one folding table with some repair, light spotting, binding slightly soiled

Literature

Blackmer 416; Röhricht 839; Tobler p.87; Laor 220 and 993; Cobham-Jeffery p.13

Catalogue Note

Cotovicus travelled to the Levant in 1598 via Corfu, Zante, Rhodes, Crete and Cyprus (there is a map of each in the text and a particularly lengthy prose description of the last two). Many of the plates were re-engraved from Jean Zuallart's Il devotissimo viaggio di Gierusalemme (Rome, 1587).