Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497
Published / Created:
anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
Call Number:
Zi +156 2
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route
Alternative Title:
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Capital spaces without guide letters., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, and BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; clasps missing. Rubricated; with uncolored woodcuts. Inscribed: Monastery Baumburg.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine, Sinai (Egypt), Venice (Italy), and Jerusalem
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, -1497
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Travel, and Travelers' writings, German
A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother's skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk
Alternative Title:
Relieving the distressed travellers
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by Robert Dighton, now at the Yale Center for British Art (Accession Number: B1986.29.78). The drawing is part of a set of "Twelve Illustrations to Contemporary Life and Diversions.", Date of publication based on watermark., and Watermark: [...] ons 1812.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Travel, Children, Wagons, Recruiting & enlistment, and Soldiers
A dandified young man carrying muff and walking stick is met by a portly older bewigged gentleman (possibly his father or an innkeeper) before an inn. The young man is followed by 3 porters carrying baggage, including 2 sailors the last carrying 2 pistols. The inn's signboard depicting a tree with a face in it, is inscribed below with the name Bullock. In the courtyard behind a man is visible having emerged from a sedan chair
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., State with title almost removed from plate., Artist's initials and imprint from photocopy of later state., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Campione
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Sedan chairs, Travel, Dandies, Clothing & dress, and Taverns (Inns)
Scotland drawn and engraved from a series of angles and astronomical observations
Description:
Title from cartouche., Engraved throughout., Relief shown by contour lines and pictures., Scale of miles 69 1/2 to a degree., Another imprint: "Published according to Act of Parliament Jan. 1st. 1789 by John Ainslie ... and William Faden ..." at bottom of sheet., Inset maps: "Shetland Islands laid down upon a less scale than the map ... "; "A Map of the Orkney Islands ...", Distance tables and lists of heights of hills and roads from Edinburgh to London., Edinburgh meridian, with note of degrees from Greenwich., Title cartouche shows men fishing and herding cattle, with sheep goats and foliage., Six compass roses., This issue not in Chubb, T. Printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland., and Scotland.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by the proprietor Thomas Brown, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament with improvements till 1800 by Thomas Brown ... Edinburgh and William Faden ... London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Orkney (Scotland), Shetland (Scotland), Scotland., Orkney., and Shetland.
BEIN 2016 815: Original illustrated wrappers. From the Richard Merkin papers., Cover title., Caption title on unnumbered page 1: The key to the shops around the world., and "Originated, designed and written by James King Steele; drawings by Dan Sweeney; color plates by California Photo Engraving Co."--Colophon.
Description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c. and Historia de la conquista de las siete islas de Gran Canaria. English
Description:
Imperfect: all but title page, pages 1-2, and leaves of plates wanting. Stamps on title page: American Geographical and Statistical Socy.; duplicate copy sold.
Publisher:
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and T. Durham in the Strand,
Subject (Geographic):
Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800 and Canary Islands--History--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
American Geographical and Statistical Society Stamp, Dodsley, James, 1724-1797, Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, Durham, Thomas (Bookseller), and Glas, Ge
"Limited edition book, 18 copies. I've finished the first copies of my new edition 'Wanderlust,' a tribute to my Father. I made prints from drawings he made when he was a soldier in the 50's (the map of Europe and the Panama Canal). The other pages are drawn using silverpoint, ink and gold leaf. I made a paper copy of a farthing, a coin in his collection that I have alwasy loved. It sits in the box made by Erin Fletcher of Herringbone Bindery. The prints were done by Rob Charlton at Goosefish Press"--Artist's website, viewed 31 March 2017., "Panama Canal and map of Europe by George Davidson, circa 1950"--Colophon., Artist's book., Artist's father was age 86 at time of book creation. See page 5., Number 2 of 18, signed by the artist. In custom box, as issued. Accompanied by paper farthing, as issued., and Pages are individual discs of card stock in the shape of a compass, joined together with ribbon in an accordion-fold format.
Subject (Name):
Davidson, George, 1929 or 1930-, Davidson, George, 1929 or 1930- illustrator, and Davidson, Laura--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Artists' books--United States, Miniature books--Specimens, and Travel
BEIN Globe 41: From the library of Stephen F. Gates. Accompanied by display plate., Title devised by cataloger., In a spherical case with a celestial planisphere on the interior., and The globe shows the tracks of the circumnavigations of Sir Francis Drake 1577-80, and Thomas Cavendish 1586-88.
Publisher:
Sumptibus J. Moxon
Subject (Geographic):
Earth (Planet)
Subject (Name):
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 and Cavendish, Thomas, 1555?-1592