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Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von (1541-1610) Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palaestinae, Syriae, aliarumque Regionum Orientalium.
Nuremberg: Ex officina Abrahami Wagenmanni, 1620.
First edition, first issue, quarto, added author's portrait dated 1647 by Johann Pfann after F. Hieronymous Ammon pasted inside front board; a plate bearing his arms, also added post-publication, mounted on opposite blank; author engraved portrait by Peter Isselburg printed on title page verso; illustrated with the author's engraved arms and 4 folding plates; bound in full period parchment, nicely preserved; 8 3/8 x 6 5/8 in.
The first edition, second issue includes two plates of Mount Calvary, a view and a floorplan, not part of this first issue. The digitized copy of the first edition, first issue held at the Austrian National Library also has four plates.
Von Haimendorf traveled to the Holy Land in the mid-1560s. He also visited the largest Greek Ionian island, Zakynthos, a common transfer destination for Europe-based Holy Land pilgrims. There he visited a memorial to the great physician anatomist Vesalius, who had just recently passed away unexpectedly on the island while returning from a similar journey in 1564.
