“Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina.” Double-page hand-colored copperplate map.

VISSCHER, NICOLAUM.

Amsterdam, 1659

Laor 793.

From Visscher’s Atlases Contractus Orbis Terrarum. In the lower right corner, the fisherman emblem of the Visscher family is here replaced by image of children fishing. The shore line runs from Sidon to Egypt. The Kishon River connects Haifa Bay to the Lake of Tiberias. Along the top, a garland is supported by six cherubs. This map is the prototype for many 17th century Holy Land maps by De Wit, Danckerts and others.