Bidspirit auction | 17th c. Map of Canaan

17th c. Map of Canaan by Juan Baptista Villalpando - 17th c. Map of Jerusalem Entitled DESCRIPTIO PARADISI, TERREA CANAAN, REGIONUMQUE A PATRIARCHIS, PRIMUM HABITATARUM [Description of Paradise, Earthly Canaan, Regions First Inhabited by of the Patriarchs]. Page 101. Blank verso | by Juan Baptista Villalpando (1552-1608) | Map is engraved by Nicolas Sanson, Albavillaeo, Jan Goeree | Published after the Synod of Dordrecht in 1637 | Copperplate Engraving on Laid Watermarked Paper | Approx. Dimensions: 10.1” H x 14.7” W (257 x 373mm) | Region of srael, Jeruzalem, Palestina, Cyprus, Syrië, Hierosolyma, Terra Promissa, Terrea Canaan. Villalpando was a Spanish Jesuit scholar & architect, who drew reconstructions of the classical city based on the assumption that the buildings of Jerusalem were designed using the laws of geometry and based on the ideals of the Roman writer Vitruvius. His plan of Jerusalem would become the most influential and copied plan of the ancient city over the next 100+ years.