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BONGARS, Jacques (1554-1612)

Lot 134
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 134 | BONGARS, Jacques (1554-1612)
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BONGARS, Jacques (1554-1612)

Gesta dei per francos, sive orientalium expeditionum. Hanau: Typis Wechelianis, 1611.

First edition of an important collection of chronicles of the Crusades, including the first printed example of Pietro Vesconte's medieval map of the World. The planispheric world map is ‘one of the few examples of medieval maps based on portolano sources in printed form’ (Shirley). The engraved maps are found in the separately-paginated second part of the present volume, Liber secretorum fidelium crucis by Marino Sanudo (c.1270–1343), a treatise intended to inspire a revival in the Crusades and which includes extensive accounts of trade, politics and history. Atabey 127; Shirley 276.



2 parts in one, folio (348 x 210mm). Engraved device on both titles, 5 engraved plates, of which 3 double-page, one folding letterpress table, woodcut head-and tailpieces, initials (some browning, last few margins lightly stained). Contemporary blind-stamped half pigskin over boards, the sides incorporating a 14th-century manuscript leaf on vellum over-painted in green, binder’s waste from Nicolaus Pol’s Hemerologion Silesiacum Vratislaviense (Leipzig: Lamberg, 1612). Provenance: Christian Karl August Albrecht, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau (1757-1803; printed bookplate dated 1794 recording purchase of the volume from Johannes Wilhelm Graefe).





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