Lot 58
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[Holy Land] - Plancius, Petrus

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Description

  • [Holy Land and Paradise] Tabula Geographica, in qua Paradisus... [with] Tabula Geographica, in qua Israelitarum, ab Ægypto ad Kenahanaeam... [with] Tabula Geographica, in qua omnes Regiones, Urbes, Oppida Loca et Fluvii Israeliae Describuntur... [with] Waeractige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Ierusalem… Amsterdam: Jan Everts Cloppenburg, [1609]
  • ink, paper
Four engraved maps, each approximately 11 3/8 x 19 1/4 in.; 290 x 490 mm. Handcolored. Matted.
Enclosed by engraved biblical scenes within oval medallions by Johannes van Duetecum ("Baptista Doetechomius").

[with]: Pieter van der Aa. De Revs-togten van Abraham gaande uit Ur der Kaldeen na Kanaan. Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, 1729. 
Engraved map, 15 x 11 1/2 in.; 380 x 295 mm. Handcolored. Matted.
The map is surrounded by 21 medallions depicting Abraham’s life from his departure from Ur until his death. 

Literature

Laor 565-567

Catalogue Note

Handsome set of maps by the Flemish cartographer Petrus Plancius (1552-1622), first published in a Dutch bible by Cloppenburg in 1590.