De Gelegentheyt Van't Paradys Ende 'T Landt Canaan

Description:

uyt de H. Schrifture en verscheyden auctoren by een gestelt, door Nicolaes Visscher. Relief shown pictorially. 2 bar scales on map; statements read: "Gemene duytsche Mylen van 15 in een Graedt." and "Uren gaens inhoudende 24 Stadien dat is 3000 passen." Decorative cartouches, compass rose, figures. 2 inset pictorial vignettes depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden, being banished from Paradise. Appears in Visscher's series of maps for Dutch bibles.

Creator:

Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679 and Broeck, Abraham van den, approximately 1616/1617-1688

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

History

Date Issued:

[ca. 1650]

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, Asia, Middle East, Israel, and Syria

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/bm675zg5424