Tabula Terrae Canaan Abrahae tempore et ante adventum filior, map of Palestine, by Benito Arias Montano, engraving. [Second half of the 16th century]. Latin (some of the place names were printed in Hebrew).
A map depicting Palestine during the time of Abraham the Patriarch, by Spanish orientalist Benito Aria Montano (1527-1598). The map is presumably taken from volume 8 of the Plantin Polyglot (Antwerp Polyglot) published by Christopher Plantin (Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1572). An identical map was printed in Antiquitatum Iudaicarum Libri IX (Leiden, 1593).
See Laor 45 and 45A.
Engraved map: 51.5X33 cm (printed on two conjoined sheets). Fair-good condition. Blemishes and wear. Tears, including some small open tears (slightly affecting map). Left margin cut diagonally (slightly affecting the map's frame). Tape on verso.