Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. With the Countries Circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs. Double-page, hand-colored 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 292
MOXON, JOSEPH.

Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. With the Countries Circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs. Double-page, hand-colored copperplate map.

15.5 x 19.5 inches.

Amsterdam, (1671):

Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $950
From: Joseph Moxon, Sacred Geographie or Scriptural Mapps. This detailed map of the region of Paradise features in upper right quadrant: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve by a sword-brandishing angel, also seen is the Tree of Knowledge and Tower of Babel in the distance. Many Biblical sites are identified including the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, Nineveh “where Jonas preacht,” The Mountains of Ararat “where on the Ark of Noah rested,” Land of Madian “this is the Kingdom of Sheba from whence the Queen… came to hear the Wisdom of Solomon.”