Beschreibung:

Holy Land.- Palestine.- Ortelius (Abraham) Palestinae Sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Nova Descriptio Auctore Tilemanno Stella Sigenens, map of the Holy Land, based on Tilemanno Stella's map of 1557, with elaborate strap-work cartouches, ships, and sea monster, engraving with early hand-colouring, on laid paper with crossed arrows watermark, platemark 350 x 465 mm. (13 3/4 x 18 1/4 in), sheet 430 x 550 mm. (17 x 21 3/4 in), Latin text verso, central vertical fold with careful repairs to splitting, minor handling creases, surface dirt and finger-soiling to margins, early ink marginalia upper right, unframed, [Antwerp, 1579]. Literature: VdB 171.1