Large Collection of Maps of Palestine – Europe, 16th -19th Centuries

Large Collection of Maps of Palestine – Europe, 16th -19th Centuries
51 maps of Palestine and its surroundings, prints (most of them engravings) from atlases, travelogues and other works. [Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, England and elsewhere, the 16th- 19th centuries].
Including:
• "Syrie auec ses prouinces", a map of Syria, woodcut from "La cosmographie universelle" (Cosmography) by Sebastian Münster (Basel, 1552). Laor 529.
• [map of Palestine], woodcut from "Cosmographey, oder Beschreibung aller Länder" (Cosmography) by Sebastian Münster (Basel, 1578).
• "Terrae Sanctae descriptio, non solum ea continens loca", map of Palestine, after Guillaume Poste; from "Biblia Sacra" edited by Guillaume Rouille (Lyon, 1569). Laor 587.
• "Geographische beschryvinge van t' Beloofde-Landt Canaan", map of Palestine, by Claes Janszoon Visscher (Amsterdam?, 1650). See Laor 789.
• "Perigrinatie ofte Veertich-Iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels", map of Palestine, by the Visscher Family; engraving from a Dutch edition of the Bible, "Biblia, dat is: De gantsche H.Schrifture" (Amsterdam, 1661). See Laor 795.
• "Syrie Moderne", map of Palestine and Syria, engraving from "Description de L'Univers" (volume II) by Alain Mannesson Mallet (Paris, 1683). See Laor 463.
• "The Forty Years travels of the Children of Israel, out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and the Wilderness in to Canaan, or the Land of Promise", map of Palestine, after Nicolaes Visscher, hand-colored engraving (London?, 1688?). Laor 802 (see also Laor 111).
• "Historische Kaert der Landen en Saecken int Oude en Nieuwe Testament", map of Palestine, an engraving from "Alle de voornaamste historien des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments" (Amsterdam: Jacob Lindenberg, ca. 1703).
• "Het Beloofde Landt Canaan, door wandelt van onsen Salichmaecker Iesu Christo neffens syne Apostelen", map of Palestine, engraving by Daniel Stoopendaal, after Nicolaes Visscher (Dordrecht?, early 18th century). Two copies (different). Laor 809 and 810.
• "Carte de la Terre Sainte divisee dans toutes ses partis selon le nombre des Tribus d'Israel avec une liste des Evechez de la Palestine", map of Palestine, after Nicolas Sanson; engraving from" Atlas Historique" by Henri Abraham Chatelain (Amsterdam, 1732). Laor 213.
• "Geographiae Sacrae, Tabula in qua Terra Promissa in suas Tribus Partesq. Distincta", map of Palestine, after Nicloas Sanson. Hand-colored engraving from "Atlas Portative" by Henri de Sauzet (Amsterdam, 1738). Laor 693.
• "A map of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, according to this history", map of Palestine, hand-colored engraving. (England, ca. 1744).
• "A new map shewing all the severall countries, cities, towns and other places mentioned in the New Testament", map of Palestine and the countries of the Mediterranean Basin, engraving from "A new sett of maps" by Edward Wells (England, early 18th century). See Laor 836.
• "Palaestina in XII Tribus divisa, cum terris adiacentibus denuo revisa & copiosior reddita", map of Palestine, hand-colored engraving, by Johann Christoph Harenberg [Nürnberg, 1750]; from "Major atlas scholasticus" (Nürnberg, 1752). Laor 325.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.