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Sale 2706 - Lot 114

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(HOLY LAND.) Group of 8 sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century engraved maps. Vp, vd
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- Adam Reissner. Taffel des Lands Canaan/die Erd Israel/Palestina oder Judische un Heilig Land Genant. Double-page woodcut of the Middle East with every city in flames after the devastation of the region by Vespasian, Titus and Hadrian. 12x13¾ inches sheet size, wide margins, blank verso; minor age tone but good. Frankfurt, 1563. Laor 642.

- Benedictus Arias Montanus. Tabula Terrae Canaan. Double-page engraved map from Montanus's Polyglot Bible. 14¾x21½ inches sheet size; skillfully conserved with small points of wormtrack filled and the left and right margins neatly replaced. Antwerp, 1572. Laor 45.

- Sebastian Munster. Syria/Cypern/Palestina/Mesopotamia;Babylonia/Sqey Arabia/mit Bergen/Wasseren und Stetten. Double-page woodcut map of the Middle East. 14x16½ inches sheet size, wide margins, German header on verso; small repair at upper right blank margin. Basel, 1588. Laor 531.

- Sebastian Munster. Das Heilig Landt mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter. Double-page woodcut map. 14x17½ inches sheet size, wide margins, German header on verso; minor spotting and repairs at center fold. Basel, 1588. Laor 532.

- Abraham Ortelius. Palestinae Sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Nova Descriptio. Hand-colored double-page engraved map of the Middle East with plentiful decorative ornamentation. 16x21½ inches sheet size, wide margins, French text on verso; light soiling to the margins. Antwerp, 1581. Van den Broecke 171 1581F87; Laor 540A.

- Petrus Plancius; and D.R.M. Mathes. Tabula Geographica, in Qua Paradisus. Double-page engraved map of the Middle East and a scene of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by 15 decorative Biblical vignettes. 16½x20½ inches sheet size, wide margins, German text on verso; minor edge soiling. Leiden?, circa 1625. Laor 565.

- Willem Blaeu. Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis Olim Palestina. Double-page engraved map with attractive decorative elements. 20x23½ inches sheet size, wide margins, German text on verso; minor foxing. Amsterdam, 1635. Laor 106A.

Visscher family. Peregrinatie ofte Veertich-iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels uyt Egypten, door de Roode-zee, Mitsgaders de Woestyne tot int Beloofde Landt Canaan. Double-page engraved map of the exodus of the Israelites ornamented with Biblical objects. 19¾x23¾ inches sheet size, wide margins, Dutch text on verso; fine original hand-color in full highlighted with gold; extremely nice. The Hague?, circa 1650. Laor 785.

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