Terre Sanctae, quae Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars ea, quae Palaestina uocatur, descriptio… Tylmannu Stellam. Double-page copperplate map.
AUCTION 64 |
Thursday, March 19th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art
Lot 266
JODE, GERARD DE.
Terre Sanctae, quae Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars ea, quae Palaestina uocatur, descriptio… Tylmannu Stellam. Double-page copperplate map.
Antwerp, first edition 1578, (or later):
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,500
From: De Jode’s Speculum Orbis Terrae, folio 13.
Rare map of the Holy Land, engraved by the brothers Johannes and Lucas van Deutecum after the broadsheet map by Tilemann Stella of 1557, now lost. Along the lower border is a prospect of Jerusalem and two smaller insets, showing the chapel at Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
<<With only two editions, Holy Land maps by de Jode are far rarer than those by his contemporary Ortelius.>>