An important map of the Holy Land:   Terra Sancta

Original copperplate engraved map
Original Color
369 x 505 mm
Map # AS-146
$ 1,475

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The map is centered on Samaria with east at the top of the map.  A vignette on bottom left shows Jonah falling from a ship into the jaws of an immense whale.  The title cartouche is surrounded by three medallions, the center one illustrating the birth of Jesus, the left one the Crucifixion and the right one the Resurrection.    

This map is from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas that produced a uniform series of maps of the world.  The publication of the Theatrum.Orbis Terrarum  can be considered the starting point for over 100 years of Dutch supremacy in the production of beautiful maps and atlases.  This map first appeared in 1598.  There is Dutch text on the verso of this particular map with a signature of page "80" at the bottom.  This map came from a Dutch edition of Ortelius atlas of 1598 or 1613 (based on van der Krogt, p. 871).

Reference:  van den Broecke, map # 183.   Krogt, Peter van der.  Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, volume 3 (Ortelius). 't Goy-Houten: HES Publishers, 2003. 

A wonderful example of this important map.  Beautiful, original color.  Generally a clean example.  Very Good Condition with short but complete margins, and two old, but stable, marginal repairs, on verso and not within image.