1491 (c1536)

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.