“Sourie ou Terre Saincte Moderne.” Hand-colored double-page copperplate map.

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 290
LA RUE, PHILIPPE DE.

“Sourie ou Terre Saincte Moderne.” Hand-colored double-page copperplate map.

17 x 22.5 inches.

Paris, first edition 1651 (or later):

Est: $500 - $700
Philippe de la Rue’s (1683-1761) modern map of the Holy Land, delineating the political division under the Ottoman Empire, extracted from his La Terre Saint en Six Cartes Geographiques (Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1651). A small inset sketch of Jerusalem in lower right. Many cities and cites labeled in French, with additional information; for example, nearby to Hebron is “The place where Adam was created;” and alongside the Dead Sea is noted “twenty miles long and five wide.”