Subject: Holy Land and Egypt
Period: 1582 (circa)
Publication: Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae
Color: Hand Color
Size:
14.3 x 10 inches
36.3 x 25.4 cm
This bold woodblock map illustrates the route taken by the Israelites in the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. The map is very graphic with illustrations of the Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea and Jonah on the back of a whale in the Mediterranean. German text on verso.
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Condition: A
There are old paper repairs of a loss in bottom margin, well away from the map, and two wormholes in the Mediterranean.