Anthology of Stories - Journeys to the Holy Land - Frankfurt, 1584

Anthology of Stories - Journeys to the Holy Land - Frankfurt, 1584
Reyßbuch deß Heyligen Lands, das ist ein grundtliche Beschreibung aller und jeder Meer und Bilgerfahrten zum Heyligen Lande, by Sigmund Feyerabend. Frankfurt: Sigmund Feyerabend, 1584. German. First edition.
Anthology of eighteen texts, among them sixteen stories of journeys to the Holy Land, a historic depiction of the first crusade, and a travel guide to the Holy Land. Texts were composed by pilgrims, clergymen, nobles, merchants and more, starting in the 12th century until the days of Feyerabend, one of the prominent Protestant publishers of his period. Some of the stories in the anthology were known earlier and others were printed for the first time. In the introduction Feyerabend calls his readers to release the Christians in the Holy Land from the burden of the Turks.
Numerous censorship deletions in ink and cut pieces (appearing at the beginning of the book are ownership inscriptions and ink stamps of Franciscan churches and the deletions were possibly done for religious reasons).
[6], 466, [5] leaves, 34 cm. Leaves 328 and 347 are lacking. Fair condition. Several leaves are cut and half of them is missing. Stains, tears, open tears. Deletions of text in ink. Ink stains. Handwritten comments. Ownership inscriptions and ink stamps on title page. Original vellum binding made of reused handwritten texts. Front binding and endpaper are half detached. Spine and its margins are defected and non-professionally repaired. Wear and defect to corners and margins of binding.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Channah Sapir.