Thomas Fuller. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

J.F. for John Williams

London

1650

FIRST EDITION. Additional armorial frontispiece and allegorical title-page. 27 double-paged engraved maps, views, Temple plans and artifacts. Large fold-out map of the Holy Land preceding p.1 (loose).

Laor 278-295, 1024-5.

“Pisgah-Sight is one of the great books on the typography of the Holy Land” (K. Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 128-131). Thomas Fuller (1608-61) was an English scholar and preacher. He composed Pisgah-Sight, which abounds with a wry humor, during his exile from Cromwellian England. Fuller included maps of ancient Egypt and Lebanon, as well as views of the Tabernacle in the Desert, the priestly vestments and Temple vessels. See Congregation Emanu-El Exhibition Catalogue, Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land, 15th-19th Centuries (2002) no. 22.