Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, Et Regionum Finitimarum...M. CC. XXCIII. Item Itinerarium Hiersolymitanum Bartholomaei De Saligniaco...

Magdeburg: Paulus Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1587. First Combined Edition of these two travel narratives to the Holy Land (first separately published in 1519 and 1525). German Dominican friar, Buchardus de Monte Sion traveled to the Middle East between 1274 and 1284, being one of the last pilgrims to travel to the Holy Land and write a full report before the fall of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. He visited Palestine, the principality of Antioch, the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, and Egypt. His work is described as being of "extraordinary importance", "the most detailed account to have come down to us from the thirteenth century" and "in a class of its own among the many mediaeval descriptions of the Holy Land." (see Wikipedia) Barthélémy de Salignac of Burgundy, knight, jurist and protonotary of the Papal Curia, undertook his journey to the Holy Land in 1522. He set out from Venice and visited Corsica, Crete, Candia, Rhodes, Cyprus, before arriving in the Holy Land, which is described in books 5 to 10. Adams B2875. Brunet I 1270 [vide BROCARDUS] & V 77. Graesse I 545 [vide BROCARDUS] & VI 233. Rohricht p. 59. Tobler pp. 27 & 69. cfBM STC German (1593 edition) [vide SALIGNIACO]. 2 Parts in 1. small 4to. [ff. 60; 50]. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century century bds. (rubbed, library stamp on title & label on lower spine, light dampstain to lower inner margins of last leaves). elala5407