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Auction 143, Lot 639

"Scriptural Geography Containing the Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testaments", Moll, Herman

Subject: Eastern Mediterranean & Middle East

Period: 1720 (circa)

Publication: Geographia Classica: The Geography of the Ancients…

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12.8 x 6.2 inches
32.5 x 15.7 cm
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A handsome map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, illustrating the lands described in the Old and New Testaments. A dashed line indicates St. Paul's journey from Jerusalem to Rome in 60 A.D. The map shows political divisions and is filled with place names, mountains, and rivers.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding, now pressed on watermarked paper with faint toning and minor soiling. The bottom margin has been trimmed near neatline, resulting in slight loss of neatline in one area. Backed in Japanese tissue to repair a fold separation and a tear, and to extend the margins to accommodate framing.

Estimate: $100 - $140

Sold for: $75

Closed on 2/13/2013

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