Rare Incunable Holy Land, 1496

Johann Schonsperger, Augsburg, 1496
[woodcut view of the destruction of Jerusalem]
4 x 7.5 inches on text sheet 8 x 11. Margin trimmed on right, else an excellent example. $850.

Very rare fifteenth century view of Jerusalem, from a pirated miniature copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Laor (1127) describes this German issue as the first, with a Latin edition following in 1497. It depicts the destruction of Jerusalem, with Solomon's Temple ablaze.