SANSON, NICOLAS - THE PALESTINE ATLAS.

Geographia Sacra et veteri et novo testamento desumata, et in Tabulas quatuor concinnata: quarum I. Totius orbis, in Bibliis Sacris cogniti, partes continet: II. Terram promissam, sive Judaeam in suas tribus divisam: III & IV. Jesu Christi, & Apostolorum Petri & Pauli Patriam, Mansiones, & Itinera, & Pauli Navigationem Jerosolymis Romam usque. Additae sunt Descriptio terrae Chanaan.... Tum & in omnes eas Tabulas, & Descriptiones, Animadversiones et Index Geographicus... Accesserunt in Indicem Gegraphicum Notae Joannis Clerici,...

Amsterdam, Franciscus Halma, 1704. Folio. (45,5 x 29 cm.). Contemp. full blindtooled Dutch vellum. Raised bands. Spine ends with tears, some cracking along fronthinge, but not loose. Vellum at frontcover a bit soiled. Egraved titlepage (Coxis del., ianen fecit). Printed titlepage in red/black with an engraved vignette. 15,(119),51,(1) pp., 1 engraved plate with portrait and coat of arms. 4 large folded engraved maps. Light yellowing to margins of textleaves, but maps and text fine and clean. (3 of the maps engraved by F. Halma).

The maps are the Francois Halma reissues of Sanson's maps from 1683.

Order-nr.: 48770