by Joseph Moxon. Relief shown pictorially. Bar scale on map given in "English Miles". Decorative cartouches (including atlas figure), compass rose, ship, sea monster. Shows buildings, topography, vegetation. Pictorial vignette of Adam and Eve. Text throughout map relating to Genesis. "Gen. 3". Appears in The Holy Bible, London, 1715. 1 of a series of 6 biblical maps published in Dutch by Nicolaes Visscher in 1671, which were translated into English by Moxon, and published in an atlas entitled: Sacred Geographie or Scriptural Mapps, (London, Moxon, 1691).
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Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691 and Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679
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