“De Gelegentheyt van’t Paradys ende t’Landt Canaan, mitsgaders de eerst bewoonde Landen der Patriarchen.” Copperplate map.

DANCKERTS, CORNELIUS

Amsterdam, 1646

Dutch text on verso.

See Laor 794.

Decorative map of the region between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf with Paradise depicted to the east of Babylon. Features two engravings: Adam and Eve with the serpent and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Further decorated with compass rose, scale of miles cartouche and a depiction of Jonah and the whale. Includes the Land of Nod, the Tower of Babel, and other semi-mythical locations.