La Saincte Géographie, c’est a dire, Exacte Description de la Terre, et Véritable Démonstration du Paradis Terrestre, depuis la Creation du Monde iusques à Maintenant.

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $3,600

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author

LAPEYRE, JACQUES D’AUZOLES.

printer

Antoine Estienne

Place

Paris

Publication

1629

Description

FIRST EDITION. Illustrated throughout.

summary

An atlas of “sacred geography” that focuses upon the morphology of the Earth based upon the text of the Bible. See F. Lestringant, Kabbale et Cosmographie, in: Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance, edited by Ilana Zinguer, Abraham Melamed, Zur Shalev (2011) pp. 211-34; and J.D. Lyons & K. Wine, Chance Literature and Culture in Early Modern France (2009) p. 39-46.

pp. (12), 224, (44). Light wear, trace wormed. Later vellum, shaken. Folio.

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