La Saincte Géographie, c’est a dire, Exacte Description de la Terre, et Véritable Démonstration du Paradis Terrestre, depuis la Creation du Monde iusques à Maintenant.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 327
LAPEYRE, JACQUES D’AUZOLES.

La Saincte Géographie, c’est a dire, Exacte Description de la Terre, et Véritable Démonstration du Paradis Terrestre, depuis la Creation du Monde iusques à Maintenant.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Illustrated throughout. pp. (12), 224, (44). Light wear, trace wormed. Later vellum, shaken. Folio.

Paris: Antoine Estienne 1629

Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $3,600
An atlas of “sacred geography” that focuses upon the morphology of the Earth based upon the text of the Bible. See F. Lestringant, Kabbale et Cosmographie, in: Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance, edited by Ilana Zinguer, Abraham Melamed, Zur Shalev (2011) pp. 211-34; and J.D. Lyons & K. Wine, Chance Literature and Culture in Early Modern France (2009) p. 39-46.