Geographiae Sacrae.

BOCHART, SAMUEL.

Petri Cardonelli

Caen

1646

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Latin text with use of Hebrew and Greek. Two folding maps with Hebrew captions

Rohricht 257; See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p.55, no. 22.

Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the biblical stories of the flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the biblical account with the various ethnic groups of Europe, Africa and Asia. Illustrated within are two engraved fold-out maps of the dispersion of the nations following the Tower of Babel and the Aegean Sea with Hebrew and Latin place names.