Lot 08113

This is an historic and geographic map of the Eastern Mediterranean, showing the regions affected by St. Paul the Apostle during his itinerant preaching that affected the whole area of the Eastern Mediterranean: from the Holy Land to North Africa, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy and the southern Sicily. On the map are the names and profiles of the major cities, while in the sea – engraved with narrow wavy lines – are depicted sea monsters & city and regional names printed over.The map is inserted in Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura, for the first time, published in 1581, and subsequently reprinted in ten different editions (1585, 1594, 1600, 1606, 1611 through 1650). The work is accompanied by various cartographic curiosities very unusual for the time. Ref. Zach. 767/501.