JERUSALEM. Schedel. 1493.
Destruccio Iherosolime. 10"h x 21"w plus Latin text above on 18"h x 25"w sheet. Stitching holes at centerfold as issued; some loss of image at centerfold 1" above bottom neat line. Text and illustrations verso.

From the Latin edition (1st) of Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg, 1493). Illustrated by Michael Wohlgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.

This view of the "Destruction of Jerusalem" is from the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle which is one of the finest works of the 15th Century, containing over 1800 woodcuts and several dozen city views. Jerusalem is the Holy City of the Jews, Christians and Muslims. As such it has been fought over for 3000 years. At the time this view was published, it was held by the Muslims; but that is not the era depicted. The Romans had partially destroyed Jerusalem in the year 70 AD. This view shows the results of that destruction. Towers are toppled and a large temple near the center is burning. "Porta aurea" is shown on a gate in the foreground.

OSTEND, BELGIUM. Seutter. c1734.
Novissima Ichnographica Delineatio munitissimae Urbis et celeberrimi Emporii Ostendae, in Comitatu Flandriae Austriacae sitae, cur et coela Matthaei Seutteri. 9"h x 23"w. Original color. The bottom margin is stained, the lower left is ragged outside the neat line and the bottom 5 inches are reinforced with rice paper on the back; would look very good if matted.

George Matthaus Seutter published his Grosser Atlas in Augsburg c1734 containing over 100 maps and three dozen city plans; this city plan appears to have come from that atlas.

A large scale plan of the city surrounded by walls and moats. Ostend [(English), Ostende (French) and Oostende (Flemish)] is in the middle of the coast of Belgium on the North Sea. Thirty-four sites and facilities are numbered or lettered and identified both in German and in Latin. There are three black and white engravings below the map; the larger is a view of Ostend from the sea; the two smaller are allegorical scenes: the war god Mars at the left and Neptune and Mercury at the right..