Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
SCHWEIGGER, SALOMON. Ein newe Reyssbeschreibung auss Teutschland nach Constantinopel und Jerusalem. Etched portrait of the author; 8 (of 9) woodcut plates; numerous woodcut text illustrations, including depiction of the Holy Sepulchre with lift-up flaps on page 298; lacks plate to face page 191. [88], 340 pages. bound with: WILD, JOHANNES. Neue Reysbeschreibung eines gefangenen Christen . . . Insonderheit von der Türcken und Araber järlichen Walfart von Alcairo nach Mecha [etc.]. Engraved portrait of the author; folding woodcut map of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. [40], 261, [3] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary vellum boards stamped in black to panel design, worn, ties lacking; front hinge split, opening leaves frayed with text loss and loose, varying marginal foxing and soiling, plate facing page 155 in first work missing outer portion, clean tears and minor marginal holes in plate facing page 177, clean tears in map in second work. Nuremberg: Katharina Lantzenberger, 1613; Balthasar Scherf, 1613

Additional Details

Second edition of the first work, which originally appeared in 1608, and first edition of the second. VD17 3:600868P (calling for 2 unnumbered leaves at end, not present in this copy), 3:002349B.