Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Reissner, Adam (1496-1575)
Jerusalem, die Alte Haubstat der Jüden.

Frankfurt am Main: Gedruckt bey Georg Raben, Sigmund Feyrabend & Weygand Hanen Erben, 1563.

First edition, folio, two parts in one volume; text in black letter; illustrated with 1 folding woodcut plate and 2 double-page woodcut maps; early ownership stamp of Joannes Haller dated 1568 appears on B5 recto (the stamp could easily be mistaken for a printed tailpiece or printer's device), likely the Swiss reformation theologian Johann Haller the Younger (1523-1575); with signatures of other Swiss reformers to title page including Felix Wyss (1596-1666); Paul Anton Wickart (1760-1832); and another owner who signed in 1773; bound in later half parchment; tabs on fore-edges throughout; (occasional tears and stains to contents); 12 x 7 in.

Adams R-340.