Bidspirit auction | BOCHART, SAMUEL. Syria et Ægypti

BOCHART, SAMUEL. Syria et Ægypti Delta (Syria and the Egyptian Delta). Hand-colored. Map in Latin with lone Hebrew reference made for the city of Emesa (Homs, Syria). 15 x 9 inches (37 x 23 cm). Leiden, 1692: In this map, Scythopolis (Beit Shean) is mistakenly placed on the east bank of the Jordan River, while the anti-Lebanon Mountain range is presented as an East-West range instead the North-South protuberance that is responsible for Lebanon’s Beka’a Valley. For high resolution images of this lot, please refer to our website at https://www.kestenbaum.net/auction/Auction-97/ .