Geographia Sacra.

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Published: Antwerp
Published date: 1624
Type: Antique Map
Technique: Copper engraving / later hand color
Issue date: 1612
Category: Europe - Middle East
Size: 352 by 480mm (13¾ by 19 inches).
Bibliography: Koe. Ort. 46; Broe. 179.
Stock number: 30706
Condition: In excellent condition.

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Original copper engraving, published 1612 in the famous historical atlas "Parergon" (Latin text-edition) by Abraham Ortelius. Finely later hand colored in wash and outline. Depicted is the ancient world focussing the Middle East with Asia Minor, Syria and Persia and neighbouring areas. Richly decorated with renaissance text cartoiuches and ornated in the lower centre with an oval decorative modern world map by Abraham Ortelius. This map of ,Sacred Geography' is based on holy writers in the Old and New Testament following the translation of the Septuaginta.

Koe. Ort. 46; Broe. 179.