Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. With the Countries Circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs. Double-page, hand-colored copperplate map.

MOXON, JOSEPH.

Amsterdam, (1671)

Laor 517.

From: Joseph Moxon, Sacred Geographie or Scriptural Mapps. This detailed map of the region of Paradise features in upper right quadrant: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve by a sword-brandishing angel, also seen is the Tree of Knowledge and Tower of Babel in the distance. Many Biblical sites are identified including the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, Nineveh “where Jonas preacht,” The Mountains of Ararat “where on the Ark of Noah rested,” Land of Madian “this is the Kingdom of Sheba from whence the Queen… came to hear the Wisdom of Solomon.”