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Terra Sancta quae in sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina

Description:

Relief shown pictorially, and by shading.

Bar scale on map given in "Horae itineris."

North oriented toward upper right of sheet.

Decorative cartouches, compass roses, ship, sea monsters.

Drawn by Jodocus Hondius the younger, who died in 1629, before its publication. Blaeu bought the plate and replaced Hondius' name with his own. He included the map in his first atlas and all further editions, leaving the date 1629.

From Blaeu's Atlantis appendix, 1630.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fq610fn4294

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fq610fn4294

Language:

lat

Creator:

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 and Hondius, Jodocus, 1594 or 1595-1629

Publisher:

Ex officina Guiljelmi Blaeuw,

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Date Issued:

1629

Spatial Coverage:

Asia, Middle East, Palestine, and Mediterranean Sea

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false