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De Gelegentheyt van't Paradys ende t'Landt Canaan, mitsgaders de eerst bewoonde Landen der Patriarchen, uyt de H. Schristure en verscheyden auctoren by een gestdlt
Title
De Gelegentheyt van't Paradys ende t'Landt Canaan, mitsgaders de eerst bewoonde Landen der Patriarchen, uyt de H. Schristure en verscheyden auctoren by een gestdlt / [cartographic material] / door Nicolaes Visscher ; A. Broeck sculpsit.
Published
[Amsterdam : Nicolaes Visscher, ca. 1660]
Physical Description
1 map ; 31.4 x 47.2 cm.
Cartographic Detail
Scale [ca. 1:4,500,000] (E 31⁰30ʹ--E 51⁰0ʹ/N 39⁰0ʹ--N 28⁰0ʹ).
Local Notes
BEIN 1983 Folio 19: Imperfect: illustrations at top cut-out and replaced with ms. titles "Asia et Armenia minor" (upper left) and "Armenia minor" (in upper right); torn along fold and at left edge, with some loss of text. Sheet measures 32 x 47.8 cm. Reinforced along edges with printed waste. No. 85 of 92 maps bound together.
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows the Middle East from Assyria to the Mediterranean, delineating the route taken by Abraham from Ur to Haran. Paradise is located east of Babel.
Illustration upper left corner shows Adam and Eve in Paradise; illustration in upper right corner shows the expulsion by the Angel.
Enlarged scale copy of the 1645 copy. Changes are omission of Abraham illustration and the fisherman has been replaced with a fishing boy.
Blank on verso.
Includes two ill. of passages from the book of Genesis.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
Dutch
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2010
References
Laor, E. Maps of the Holy Land, 794
Subjects
Genre/Form
Maps.
Printed waste (Binding)
Also listed under
Netherlands Amsterdam.
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