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[SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)]. Hierosolima, [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, c.1493]. Woodcut bird's-eye view of Jerusalem on single folio leaf numbered XVII with Latin text in double column above, single column of text on verso with illustration of the construction of a Babylonian tower in left margin and royal portraits in the right (some very light staining), size of leaf 407 x 275mm.
With 5 other maps including 2 early maps of Jerusalem, Gierusalemme citta santa Metropoli gia del regno Giudaico & heggi colonia del Turco (n.p.: early? 16th-century) and Benito Arias Montano's Antique Ierusalem Vera Icnographia ([Antwerp, c.1572], hand-coloured) and 3 maps of the Holy Land including Abraham Ortelius's Palestinae sive Totius Terrae Promissionis (Antwerp, c.1570) and Heinrich Buenting's Reisen der Kinder von Israel aus Egypten (Helmstadt, c.1582). (6)
With 5 other maps including 2 early maps of Jerusalem, Gierusalemme citta santa Metropoli gia del regno Giudaico & heggi colonia del Turco (n.p.: early? 16th-century) and Benito Arias Montano's Antique Ierusalem Vera Icnographia ([Antwerp, c.1572], hand-coloured) and 3 maps of the Holy Land including Abraham Ortelius's Palestinae sive Totius Terrae Promissionis (Antwerp, c.1570) and Heinrich Buenting's Reisen der Kinder von Israel aus Egypten (Helmstadt, c.1582). (6)
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