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Auction 117, Lot 731

"The Forty Years Travels of the Children of Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and the Wildernesse in to Canaan, or The Land of Promise", Blome, Richard

Subject: Holy Land

Period: 1687 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
17.8 x 10.5 inches
45.2 x 26.7 cm
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Interesting map of the Holy Land depicting the wandering of the Children of Israel. The map is filled with notations and biblical references, and embellished with tiny vignettes, ships, Jonah and the whale and a decorative cartouche.

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Condition: B

Lightly toned with a couple of tiny burn holes in map.

Estimate: $300 - $350

Sold for: $220

Closed on 12/6/2006

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