LOT 50:
BLOME, RICHARD.
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BLOME, RICHARD.
Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. With the Countries Circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs. Double-page, hand-colored copperplate map.
15.5 x 19.5 inches (45 x 50 cm).
London, 1705:
A re-issue of Joseph Moxon’s 1671 map, with minor alterations by Blome. This detailed map of the region of Paradise in upper right quadrant: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve by a sword-brandishing angel, also seen is the Tree of Knowledge and Tower of Babel in the distance. Many Biblical sites are identified including the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, Nineveh “where Jonas preacht, ” The Mountains of Ararat “where on the Ark of Noah rested, ” Land of Madian “this is the Kingdom of Sheba from whence the Queen… came to hear the Wisdom of Solomon.”
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