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Korte beschryvinge van de landschappen des werelts enz.

Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Amsterdam? 166-?]

NOTES
Scales vary.

Title from leather label on cover.

Label has monogram E. B. de V., surmounted by a crown.

Maps, not dated, intended to be bound in a Bible, but assembled in a modern half Morocco binding.

The maps have privileges, not dated, for 15 years, granted to N. Visscher by the states of Holland and West Friesland.

Maps 3, 4, and [5] each have engraved signature: C. J. Visscher excud.: maps 2, 3, [5] and [6]: Broeck sculpsit or A. van den Broeck fecit (or sculpsit).

Text on versos of maps.

[1] Orbis terrarum tabula recens emendada.--2. Die gelegentheyt van 't paradys ende 't landt Canaan, mitsgaders de eerst bewoonde landen per patriarchen.--3. Perigrinatie ofte veertichiarige reyse der kinderen Israëls.--4. De heylige en wytvermaerde stad Ierusalem eerst genaemt Salem.--[5] Hey beloofde landt Canaan door wandelt van onsen Salichmaecker Iesu Christo, nessens syne apostelen.--[6] Geographische beschryvinghe van de wandeling der apostelen ende de reysen Pauli.

SUBJECTS
Bible--Geography--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Israel--Jerusalem.

RELATED NAMES
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 7-1652.
Broeck, Abraham van den, ca. 1616-ca. 1688. [from old catalog]

MEDIUM
6 col. maps 43 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G2230 .V5 166- Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
([page 11]) g7504j ct000398 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g7504j.ct000398

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