Tabula Terrae Sanctae in Usum eorum qui Pentateuchum Legunt (A Map of the Holy Land for the Use of those Who Read the Pentateuch). Copperplate map, colored.
Auction 97 |
Thursday, March 31st,
2022 at 1:00pm
Boutique Sale Featuring Passover Hagadoth & Maps of Eretz Israel
Lot 60
LE CLERC, JEAN.
Tabula Terrae Sanctae in Usum eorum qui Pentateuchum Legunt (A Map of the Holy Land for the Use of those Who Read the Pentateuch). Copperplate map, colored.
Amsterdam, 1710 (or later).:
Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $250
Notably, the Mediteranean and Dead seas are mentioned in Hebrew in addition to Latin.
Jean Le Clerc was a radical theologian whose critiques of the Bible eventually drove him out of Geneva. The present map is from the second edition of his Biblical commentary (Amsterdam, 1710).