(HOLY LAND.) Johann Bongars; after Pietro Vesconte.
(HOLY LAND.) Johann Bongars; after Pietro Vesconte. [Untitled engraved folding map]. Watermarked laid paper, 12x16¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; virtually flawless condition.-Hanau, 1611
Scarce example of Bongars' unedited seventeenth-century engraved rendering of this important Medieval map of the Holy Land, which, until the time of the present publication, was only seen in a 14th-century manuscript of Vesconte's geography compiled by Marino Sanudo.
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(HOLY LAND.) Johann Bongars; after Pietro Vesconte. [Untitled engraved folding map]. Watermarked laid paper, 12x16¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; virtually flawless condition.-Hanau, 1611
Scarce example of Bongars' unedited seventeenth-century engraved rendering of this important Medieval map of the Holy Land, which, until the time of the present publication, was only seen in a 14th-century manuscript of Vesconte's geography compiled by Marino Sanudo.
