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With Bünting's Clover Leaf World, Pegasus as Asia, Europe as a Queen, and Africa.
Small quarto (12.5 x 8 inches). Very attractive contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, contemporary metal clasps with images of the Crucifixion (leather renewed). 2 books in 1 volume. First book (Itinerarium...): 4 parts in 1. 12 (10 double-page) woodcut maps. Collation: 8 leaves, 250 (recto 252) pages, 4; 3 pages, 110 pages, 4 pages; 34 (recto 35) pages; 3 leaves, 23 (recto 25) pages. Second book (Harmonia...): 3 parts in 1. Collation: 29 pages, 180 pages, 5 leaves; 2 pages, 51 pages, 2; 2 leaves, 487 (recto 490) pages, 7 leaves.
Early German edition of Bünting's Itinerarium illustrated with 12 (10 double-page) woodcut maps and plans: 2 world maps (including the famous clover-leaf map), Europe as Virgin, Asia as Pegasus, Africa, 4 maps of the Holy Land, map of the Eastern Mediterranean and plans of Jerusalem and the temple. Bound with the first edition of the Gospel Harmony in the arrangement by Bünting.
Overall a very nice copy in a contemporary binding, unrestored, of a book often found in very worn condition.
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