Live auction - Lot 490
[Biblical world]
Prophetien. Vervullingen.
[1687]
Hammer price: €
750
€ 200 / 300
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Engr., 36 x 46,5 cm, hand-coloured.
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Very unusual Bible map with a hemisphere depicting the Old World above a scene with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. At the bottom, scenes from the Old Testament prophecy and Christ fulfillment including Eve offering an apple to Adam, Noah's Ark, Abraham offering his son, Jonah and the whale, the birth of Christ, Crucifixion etc. Dutch text on verso.
Ref. Poortman & Augusteijn 148.