[Palestine]

Decorative map of Palestine from the time of Abraham. Text on Latin at right above decorated scale. Compass point at sea. Arms of ‘Eduardo Benlossio’ at top left. 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