EPHRAIM

Very decorative map of the land of the Tribe of Ephraim, from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean. Coat of arms of Epraim at top right. Dedication to, and arms of ‘Guilelmo Crane’ at lower left, decorated scale at lower centre. 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 Map Making)

Fine condition