Auction 101
Winner's Unlimited - Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Maps, Periodicals, Postcards, banknotes, Eretz Israel
Jul 19, 2017
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LOT 63:
Incunabulum. A Map of Jerusalem. Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg, 1493
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Sold for: $360
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$400 - $800
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An imaginary map of the walled city of Jerusalem. The Temple surrounded by a round city as it was traditionally depcited in the Middle Ages. By Hartmann Schedel. Nuremberg, 1493. Incunabulum.
A beautiful wooden engraving. Black and white.
From Liber Chronicarum: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten [Nuremberg Chronicle], p. xvii, the German edition.
Printed only 40 years after the invention of the printing press and a year after the expulsion of Spanish Jewry and Columbus's discovery of America. One of the earliest maps of Jerusalem currently known.
Leor, 1123. Rubin, Jerusalem in Maps and Views, page 60.
Engraving size: 23x19 cm. Leaf size: 40x28 cm.
