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Deventer imprint - Holy Land - HESE, Johannes de - Itinerarius Joannis de Hese a Hierusalem describens dispositiones terrarum insularum montium & auarum ac etiam quedam mirabilia & pericula per diversas partes mundi contingentia lucidissime enarrans....

Estimation : 2000 / 2000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
Tractatus de decem nationibus et sectis christianorum. Epistola Joannis soldani ad Pium papam secundum. Epistola responsoria (...) Joannis presbiteri maximi Indorum & Ethiopum christianorum Imperatoris (...) Tractatus (...) de situ & dispositione regionum & insularum totius indie.
Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 24 January 1504
4to, mod. wr., [20] ff. Excellent copy, rubricated throughout. Very rare early ed. (1st 1490) of a famous fictitious travel account to the Holy Land and further. It survives in 5 mss. (1424-) and 11 early printed eds (1490-1565), often with revisions. “In a similar vein with Mandeville’s travels, Hesse’s work provides the reader with a fantastic and extremely engaging narrative - he encounters cannibals, pygmies, and a unicorn; sees a parting of the sea, which enables him to reach a holy shrine; finds and visits the Garden of Eden; and spends a significant amount of time visiting the legendary (and mythical) Prester John in his oriental palace.” (Reese). It is above all a record of how a northern European might have imagined Asia during the later Middle Ages. Blank capital spaces.
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