A map ahead of its time—crammed full of place names. Engraved by Abraham Goos.

Published in the Atlas Portatif (1748-49). Indicates giant beds of seaweed west of the Canaries and just north of the Tropic of Capricorn.

Blome dedicated this map to the officers of “the Honorable Company of Royall Adventurers of England tradeing into Affrica,” and included a handsome crest, presumably belonging to the Adventurers. He first published this map in 1670 in his Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World and reused the plate in 1682 when he published it in Bernhard Varenius’ Cosmography and Geography, from which this example comes. The map is based on the work of the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, which Blome acknowledges in the title. Printed with plate tone in the top left corner.

From Moll's Atlas Minor. Largely dampstained in a fairly unobtrusive manner.

With the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian on the east this Ptolemaic map names Armenia Major and Minor. Printed on fine heavy paper.

The Promised Land, as divided among the Twelve Tribes, with a large cartouche with drapery held by several putti, published in Moullart-Sanson's Géographie Sacrée in 1716. Moullart-Sanson was the grandson of the famous cartographer Nicolas Sanson, the elder, and uncle of G. Robert de Vaugondy, another influential French cartographer. A small repaired paper loss extending into the neat lines near the bottom center.

From Moullart-Sanson’s Géographie Sacrée. The cartouche is surrounded by Christ and Sts Peter and Paul. The routes taken through the western Mediterranean and Asia Minor by Peter and Paul are marked. A wind rose in the Mediterranean names the eight winds in accordance with the New Testament. Moullart-Sanson was the grandson of the famous cartographer Nicolas Sanson, the elder, and uncle of G. Robert de Vaugondy, another influential French cartographer.

Biblical Jerusalem oriented with east at the top. Most early maps of Jerusalem were based on the Bible rather than actual geography. This map is "the richest and most detailed" of these maps with over 280 named and numbered sites from both the Old and New Testaments. Nebenzahl says that "Adrichom’s delineation of Jerusalem is the most dramatic and important of the 16th century." Significantly, it is the first map to depict the fourteen Stations of the Cross as they are most widely accepted today.

The copper plate that this impression was taken from had three breaks in it, the breaks printing as jagged lines. Here, the jagged lines have been painted over. Two out of three of these breaks are seen on the 1590 impression of this map (see Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem), indicating that the present map was printed later. The printing plate deteriorated further and the map was eventually re-engraved, keeping the 1584 date until 1692, when the date was finally changed. One repaired tear into the image near the center left; misfolds at the centerfold.

Tishby, p. 30; Nebenzahl, p. 90.

A highly detailed map of modern Jerusalem with printed overlays indicating "ancient remains and names" in biblical times, according to Josephus, and in the medieval era. Dampstained at top and bottom, not affecting the image; repaired split at centerfold.

With an inset of the Arabian peninsula. Evenly browned, light offsetting.

Blome first published this map in 1670 in his Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World. He reused the plate in 1682 when he published it in Bernhard Varenius' Cosmography and Geography, from which this example comes. The map is based on the work of the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, which Blome acknowledges in the title.

Encompassing all of the area from the Persian Gulf to the Caucasus. Some offsetting.

The maps are:Palestine Plan of Partition with Economic Union Proposed by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question, 18 x 9" (45.5 x 38 cm); printed in two colors and present in two examples, one in English and one in French.

City of Jerusalem Boundaries Proposed by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question, 9.5 x 6.5" (22 x 16.5 cm), uncolored. The boundaries of Greater Jerusalem, including Bethlehem. Present in two examples, one in English and one in French.

One of the pivotal moments in the modern history of the Middle East and of the State of Israel was the adoption of Resolution 181 by the United Nations General Assembly on November 29, 1947. The Resolution called for the partition of the British Mandate territory of Palestine and would have partitioned the territory of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with the Greater Jerusalem area, encompassing Bethlehem, coming under international control. The Jews in Palestine accepted the resolution, but the Arabs in Palestine and the Arab states did not. The subsequent war resulted in an enlarged Israel declaring its independence on May 14, 1948.