Tabula Moderna Terre Sancte. Double-page, hand-colored woodcut map.

PTOLEMY - WALDSEEMULLER.

Ulm, first edition 1482, (or later)

Framed.

Laor 603.

An important and rare map of Holy Land from Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia. Edited by Nicolaus Germanus Donis. Ulm, Leonardus Holle, 1482. As per all modern maps of the Holy Land that were added to the early printed editions of Ptolemy, this was taken from Petrus Vesconte, and Marino Sanuto, c. 1320. “Oriented to the East, shows the whole of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan divided into the Twelve Tribes. The shore line runs from Sidon to Gaza. South of a fantasy Carmel Mountain there is a big island, called the Castle of the Pilgrims (Atlit of today) and a similar but smaller island, north of Jaffa called Assur. The Carmel Mountain is misshapen. The Jordan River in its wide meanderings is shown as a thin line.” (Laor). A highly collectible map, here in fine condition with striking coloring.