First printed map based on first-hand observation, depicting Palestine based on a 13th century pilgrimage
The third woodblock
[Untitled map of Palestine]
[anonymous] /Dominican Burchard of Mt. Sion,
1491 (c1536). 13 x 16 1/2 inches (full sheet). Left and right margins trimmed as
is almost always the case, elswe excellent. Some scant original color.
$6500.
Map of the eastern Mediterranean shores and Holy Land,
from the Mer des
Hystoires, after the pilgrimage of the thirteenth-century Dominican Burchard of Mt. Sion.
Campbell (Earliest Print Maps) remarks that the maker of the maps for the
1491 Mer des Hystoires was a "thinking individual", because in the corresponding
world maps he corrects errors made in 1475 block and slavishly copied in the
1488 block.