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Dec 23, 2018
Israel
 Rav Shach 25 Beitar Ilit
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LOT 192:

Painted Map, Eretz Israel - Dividing the Twelve Tribes - Antwerp, 1590

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Painted Map, Eretz Israel - Dividing the Twelve Tribes - Antwerp, 1590
map of Israel. Great copper engraving, important and rare, colorful !.
The map describes the important places in the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel.
View from south to north. The coastline from Sidon in the north to Rhinocolura in the south. Dead Sea in the south.
In the upper left corner is a cartouche with the inscription: "Typus Chorographicus, Celebrium Locorum in Regno Iudae Et Israhel. Arte Factus A Tilemanno Stella Sigenensi ".
In the lower right corner cartouche with the pattern. Baroque style cartouches.
With Latin text: "Ivdaea et Israhel." ["Judah and Israel"].
Cartographer: Abraham Ortlius.
Antwerp, 1590. [This map is documented in print in 1586 (right cartouche), indeed, the map was first published in 1590]. Plantin printing. On the left side is Latin text.
[Leor, 546].
53X42 cm.
Very good condition.

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