Peregrinus in Jerusalem. Frembdling zu Jerusalem. Dass ist: Aussführlicher Orientalischen Reis-Beschreibungen.
Author: Myller, Angelicus Maria
Publisher: Prag, Höger
Year: 1732
Edition: 1st
Category: Travel - Asia West
Price : € 2,200.-
Part 4 and 5 (of 5) bound in 1 volume, 4to. Part 4: pp. [10], 1-288, [8]. Part 5: pp. [4], 289-621, [11].
Contemporary leather, with 30 copper engravings, of which 7 with 2 plates per page, 10 full page portraits of Grandmasters in the Order of the Maltese Knights, 10 full page plates and 3 full page maps (See list of illustrations at the bottom). As front free endpaper and pastedown a rubricated incunable leaf has been used.The leather a bit worn and with an occasional wormhole, not going through. Rear endpapers missing (removed other incunable leaf?). Darkened throughout and, very mildly and unobtrusively, waterstained throughout. A scattered wormhole in the margins only of a few pages. Some page edges restored. Handwritten ex-libris in old hand at title page and note in old hand on last blank page. Part 4 describes the journey from Egypt via Laodicea and Antioch to Syria and Aleppo, while part 5 describes the route back to Rome from Aleppo via Cyprus, Crete, Gozo and Malta. The plates, amongst others, depicts buildings and sites in Medina, Mecca, Khaniá and La Valetta, though most are of Rome. Despite the overall condition of the book still a very scarce and interesting resource for the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Rome. * List of illustrations, all full page unless mentioned otherwise: 01) Illustrated map of the Eastern Mediterranean
02) Mecha (View of the town of Mecca)
03) Medina (view of the town of Medina)
04) Schebet Seman
05) Candia (Map of Crete)
06) Statt Candia / Statt Canea (2 illustrations on one page)
07) Malta (Map)
08) Stadt Valeta
09) Fr. Gerard (Portrait)
10) Raymundus Dupui (Portrait)
11) De Lorgue (Portrait)
12) Fulco de Villaret (Portrait)
13) Deodatus de Gozone (Portrait)
14) Philippus Villiers (Portrait)
15) Ioannes de Valeta (Portrait)
16) Ioannes de la Cassiere (Portrait)
17) Raymundus Perellos (Portrait)
18) Antonis Emanuel de Vilhena (Portrait)
19) Mediterranean (Map showing Italy and the Levant) The following plates are all of Rome 20) Vaticanum
21) Castellum Angeli / Portam Populi (2 illustrations on one page)
22) Palatium / Forum (2 illustrations on one page)
23) Mons Citatorius
24) S. Maria Major / Ioannem in Laterano (2 illustrations on one page)
25) Carre de Victoria / Ecclesia Lauretana (2 illustrations on one page)
26) Capella S. Ignatij
27) Nuovo Porto di Ripetta
28) Dogana nova
29) Sepulchrum / Ruinae Pilatij C. Augusti (2 illustrations on one page)
30) Amphiteatrum Coliseus / Amphiteatrum Vespasiani (2 illustrations on one page)
|
