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[BREYEDENBACH, Bernhard von. Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, Mainz: Erhard Reuwich (and perhaps Peter Schoeffer), 11 February 1486]. Small 2°, 109 leaves only (of 148), 4-line initials in red and blue, red capital strokes, 3 woodcut illustrations, 3 woodcut diagrams (lacking all folding views, first leaf detached and soiled, large part of upper margin of first 9 leaves torn away, light marginal waterstaining, some staining), old boards (worn), 16th- and 17th-century inscriptions on verso of final leaf and a few marginal annotations.

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[BREYEDENBACH, Bernhard von. Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, Mainz: Erhard Reuwich (and perhaps Peter Schoeffer), 11 February 1486]. Small 2°, 109 leaves only (of 148), 4-line initials in red and blue, red capital strokes, 3 woodcut illustrations, 3 woodcut diagrams (lacking all folding views, first leaf detached and soiled, large part of upper margin of first 9 leaves torn away, light marginal waterstaining, some staining), old boards (worn), 16th- and 17th-century inscriptions on verso of final leaf and a few marginal annotations.

FIRST EDITION of this account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai by Breydenbach. HC *3956; GW 5075; BMC I, 43 (IB. 331); Goff B1189; IGI 2055. The lot sold not subject to return.
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