A 16th century woodcut map of the Holy Land

Name: A 16th century woodcut map of the Holy Land
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MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Terra Sancta XXIII Nova Tabula.

Basle: Henri Petri, c.1550, Latin edition. Coloured. Woodcut, sheet 270 x 345mm.

Stock #: 25311

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A woodcut map of the Holy Land in Biblical times, orientated with north to the right amd a large text block filling the seas. The map is marked with the last years of the Exodus; in the Dead Sea Sodom and Gomora are shown burning. Bottom left is a vignette of a shepherd watering his flock from a well.

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