“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
Lot 290
LA RUE, PHILIPPE DE.
“Sourie ou Terre Saincte Moderne.” Hand-colored double-page copperplate map.
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.”