“Sourie ou Terre Saincte Moderne.” Hand-colored double-page copperplate map.

LA RUE, PHILIPPE DE.

Paris, first edition 1651 (or later)

cf. Laor 420.

Philippe de la Rue’s (1683-1761) modern map of the Holy Land, delineating the political division under the Ottoman Empire, extracted from his La Terre Saint en Six Cartes Geographiques (Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1651). A small inset sketch of Jerusalem in lower right. Many cities and cites labeled in French, with additional information; for example, nearby to Hebron is “The place where Adam was created;” and alongside the Dead Sea is noted “twenty miles long and five wide.”