A Map shewing ye situation of Paradice and ye Country inhabited by ye Patriarchs., design'd for the better Understading ye Sacred History.... First edition of the map..
London : printed for J Senex at the Globe in Salisbury Court, and W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row. 1716. Engraved map. Handcolored. Centerfold, as issued. 42,5 x 53cm. Old laid paper. Stain upper right........Ruderman: "Rare map of the Holy Land and contiguous parts of the Middle East and Cyprus......
The map shows Eden just below the confluence of the Euphrates River and the Tigris River, with references to Exodus and the Book of Numbers......
The map extends to Noah's Arc on Mount Ararat and the Persian Gulf in the east, centered on Babel, Niniveh and Ur, with numerous vignettes from the Old Testament throughout the map. "........Laurence Worms - Ash Rare Books : "Senex finished his seven-year apprenticeship in August 1702 and immediately opened his own shop: his father had died the previous year – there was probably an inheritance. It was “opposite to the South Portico of St. Clement’s Church in the Strand” – this would have been more or less the view from his window. His earliest publications were modest enough, standard fare for the period, but one of these early books, seemingly his first solo publication, was a fresh edition of Caradoc’s “History of Wales”, published in 1702. Clavell had brought out an edition a few years earlier, but the difference was that Senex now included a little map..............He and a new partner, John Maxwell, returned to retail premises at the Sign of the Globe, “going into Salisbury Court”, off Fleet Street. I take this to be the Maxwell who later translated Isaac Newton’s “General Scholium”, published by Senex in 1715." Item #16-6431
Price: $700.00