Samuel Bochart. Geographiae Sacrae Pars Prior Phaleg Seu De Dispersione Gentium et Terrarum Diviosone Facta in aedificatione turris Babel. Cum Tabula Chorographica, & duplici Indice, 1. Locorum Scripture. 2. Rerum & Verborum.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Petri Cardonelli

Cadomi (i.e Caen, Normandy, France)

1646

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Complete with all double-page engraved maps. Latin text with use of Hebrew and Greek. Maps with Hebrew captions.

Rohricht 257; See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p.55, no. 22.

Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan exerted a profound influence on 17th-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the biblical stories of the Flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 Nations recorded in the Biblical account with the various ethnic groups of Europe, Africa and Asia. Particularly noteworthy are the two engraved fold-out maps of the dispersion of the nations following the Tower of Babel, and the Aegean Sea, each with Hebrew and Latin place names.