SIMEON

Map of the land of Simeon, present day Gaza. Biblical scenes represented on map. Arms of ‘Wilhelmo Honywood’ at lower right, decorated scale with two babies holding dividers. “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