Geographia Sacra [Sacred Geography]

BORCHARDT, SAMUEL

Johann David Zunner

Frankfurt a/Main

1674

Second edition. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Engraved cameo portrait of author as frontispiece. 4 foldout maps with place-names in both Latin and Hebrew: 1)”Description of the Lands in Which Were Dispersed the Builders of the Tower of Babel”(Asia Minor, Africa and Europe); 2) “Universal Table of Phoenician Navigation Routes” (from Atlantic to Indian Oceans; large inset of Isles of Aegean Sea); 3)Hispania and Western Africa; Italy; and 4) Isle of Sicily (inset of City of Syracuse). Tailpieces

E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), p. 55 (w.22) (facsimile of map); Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land 15th-19th Centuries (Exhibition at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, 2002), 30 (facsimile of map)

Samuel Borchardt (1599-1667), a French Protestant theologian, prepared this monumental work as a deeper examination of the Book of Genesis. The first part of the book, “Phaleg,” treats of the names contained in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10; the second part, “Chanaan,” takes up the issue of the colonies and language of the Phoenicians. See JE, Vol. III, p. 279; Zur Shalev, Geographia Sacra: Cartography, Religion, and Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 2004)