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Here for your consideration is an intriguing map of Jerusalem. Labeled: Korte beschryvinge van de landschappen des werelts enz. It was created Amsterdam 166-.
Bible.
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.
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