Subject: Holy Land
Period: 1682 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Black & White
Size:
18.2 x 12 inches
46.2 x 30.5 cm
First state of Bastiaan Stoopendaal's map depicting the Exodus from Egypt and the wanderings of the Children of Israel. The lower part of the map is elaborately engraved with a scene of the encampment and Moses receiving the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. Adam, Eve, Cane and Able flank the title cartouche, and the map is further decorated with a convoy of ships bringing cedar for the building of Solomon's Temple, and Jonah and the whale. Published by H. Keur and M. Doornick in a Dutch Bible.
References: Poortman & Augusteijn #132.
Condition: A
Good impression and margins with minor soil and a small split on bottom outside fold, not affecting map.
