Geographiae Sacrae.

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 310

BOCHART, SAMUEL.

Geographiae Sacrae.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Two parts in one. Latin text with use of Hebrew and Greek. <<Two folding maps with Hebrew captions >> ff. [28], 360, [48], 361-864, pp. (9). Lightly foxed, ex-library. Recent boards. Folio. Rohricht 257; See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p.55, no. 22.

Caen: Petri Cardonelli 1646

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the biblical stories of the flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the biblical account with the various ethnic groups of Europe, Africa and Asia. Illustrated within are two engraved fold-out maps of the dispersion of the nations following the Tower of Babel and the Aegean Sea with Hebrew and Latin place names.