“A Description of the Land of Gosen, and Moses passage though the Deserts.” Hand-colored copperplate engraving. Cojoined.

HOLE, WILLIAM.

London, first edition 1614 (or later)

Laor 337.

From: Sir Walter Raleigh. The History of the World. London, 1614, f. 203. Detailed map illustrating Moses exodus from Egypt as the leader of the Israelites. Shows the crossing of the Red Sea and wandering in the desert, illustrated by 42 numbered encampments. One of the few maps to show the Exodus using English nomenclature and annotations. Two large strapwork cartouches and fine compass rose. Appears in Raleigh’s publication in which he sought to tell the history of the world from Creation to the present. He wrote this while imprisoned in the Tower of London after being charged with conspiracy by James I.