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Aegean Sea

Stock No. 3101

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 365 x 330 mm., sheet about 460 x 390 mm. Later hand-colouring. Vertical folds as issued. Remargined (120 mm.) bottom right.

£300.00

Cilicia and Cyprus

Stock No. 3096MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 260 x 190 mm., sheet about 360 x 230 mm. Later hand-colouring.

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£0.00

Greek Islands: Nisyros, Kos, Chios

Stock No. 3107MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 285 x 195 mm., sheet about 360 x 230 mm. Later hand-colouring.

£180.00

Mediterranean & Middle East

Stock No. 3103MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 323 x 400 mm., sheet about 360 x 465 mm. Later hand-colouring. The map describes the dispersal of humanity after the fall of the Tower of Babel. Bochart beleived this event to be the key to the dispersal of different languages. Vertical folds as issued, and a few minor horizontal creases.

£300.00

Mesopotamia with part of Babylon

Stock No. 3102MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 268 x 195 mm., sheet about 360 x 230 mm. Later hand-colouring. This map corresponds to the modern Iraq and eastern Syria.

£200.00

Part of Baetica (southern Spain)

Stock No. 3100

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 284 x 194 mm., sheet about 360 x 230 mm. Later hand-colouring. Note that this map presents with east at the top. The Bsetis (Guadalquivir) River runs past Corduba (Cordova) and into the Mediterranean at the old region of Tartessos. Suel is now Malaga.

£180.00

Places visited by the Phoenicians

Stock No. 3097MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 310 x 400 mm., sheet about 360 x 460 mm. Later hand-colouring. This map extends from the British Isles in the north-west to Sri Lanka (here called Taprobana) in the south-east, and features an elaborate cartouche including some of the animals described in Bochart’s Heirozoïcon.

£300.00

Sicily

Stock No. 3099MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 310 x 400 mm., sheet about 360 x 460 mm. Later hand-colouring. Central vertical fold as issued, a couple of minor horizontal creases, a couple of short repaired marginal tears (outside engraved area).

£400.00

Southern Italy & North Africa

Stock No. 3104MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 325 x 215 mm., sheet about 360 x 260 mm. Printed on thick paper. Later hand-colouring. Vertical fold as issued.

£250.00

Spain & part of Africa

Stock No. 3098MS

Copper-engraved map for Samuel Bochart, Geographia Sacra, in his Opera Omnia, Leiden, 1692. (Bochart (1599-1667) was a French scholar who studies were mainly biblical and linguistic.) Image 288 x 193 mm., sheet about 360 x 230 mm. Later hand-colouring.

£200.00

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