Israels Peregrination, or the Forty Years Travels of the Children of Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and the Wilderness into Canaan, Or The Land of Promise. Double-page, hand-colored copperplate map.

The third of a series of six Biblical maps by Nicholas Visscher, translated from the Dutch by Joseph Moxon (1627-1691) that appear in his Sacred Geographie or Scriptural Mapps. This elaborately decorated, English-language itinerarium, oriented to the west, depicts the flight from Egypt and the wanderings of the Jews in the desert. Title cartouche upper right, includes a distance scale of “English miles” alongside two putti. Below are a series of religious iconographic images including vessels from the Temple. Also featured is the plan of the Jews’ encampment in the desert according to tribe alongside the Tabernacle and flanked by depictions of Moses and Aaron. Other images include the two sides of a shekel coin and a heraldic crest bearing dedicatory inscription: “To his Grace James Duke of Ormond.” Of particular interest here are many miniatures of Biblical scenes: “Pharaoh and all of his host following Israel is drowned in the Sea;” “Quails come flying from the Sea;” “The Israelites dance about the molten Calf;” “Moses receives the Law;” “Miriam sent out;” “The Brazen Serpent lift up by Moses;” “Aarons Grave Mount Hor;” etc. Other imagery includes the smoking ruins of Sodom and Gomorra in the Dead Sea, Jonah cast ship from the ship and swallowed by the whale, Hiram’s fleet bringing King Solomon cedars and fir from Lebanon to Jaffa and Solomon’s ships in the Red Sea bringing gold from Ophir. Each of the tribes of Israel are identified in their respective territories.