ASSHER

Map of the coast and hinterland of Sidon and Tyre. Coat of Arms and dedication to ‘Leonardo Gleane’, scale cartouche, with Neptune riding a satyr. Sheild of the Tribe of Assher at top left. Dramatic biblical scenes represented on map. “ From the seventeenth century onwards various works were issued which dealt with the ancient world, such works were very popular. Perhaps the one with the most quaint and decorative series of maps is that in Thomas Fuller’s Pisgah’s Sight of Palestine..” (Tooley: Maps and Mapmakers, p. 104)

Fine condition