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Wed, Feb 23, 2022 10:00AM EST
Lot 243

Early 18th cent Holy Land Map of Middle East

Estimate: $80 - $150

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Vesscher, after, Die Gelegenheit des Paradeis und des Lands Canaan, Sambt den Erst Bewohnten Landeren der Patriarchen..., antique map, c. 1710s, published in a German bible by Johann Detleffsen, a slightly larger re-engraving of Vesscher's famous map from a century earlier, full sheet 16 x 19 inches, folded down center as originally issued, in a frame that allows you to see the text on the backside, includes vignettes of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and their expulsion, geography extends from Assyria to the Mediterranean Sea and shows the route taken by Abraham from Ur to Haran, showing the cities of Bales and Nineveh as well.
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