Christian Van Adrichom, Theatrum Terrae Sanctae

A complete collection of the 12 maps and plans from Christian Van Adrichom's Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et biblicarum historiarum cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis…, also including the title-page, each hand-coloured, laid paper, map of Jerusalem dated 1682, although title-page possibly earlier, maps including:

Situs Terrae Promissionis SS Bibliorum Intelligentiam Exacte Aperiens… [The Holy Land], on two sheets joined, some loss in margins and along central fold at foot, provided in facsimile, 37 x 103cm; Jerusalem et Suburbia eius sicut…, imaginary plan of Jerusalem, on two sheets joined, 51 x 75cm, dated 1682; Exodus map; The nine maps of the tribes of Israel;

varying levels of browning and some wormtrailing, with a duplicate of the exodus map and 4 other rleated maps of the Holy Land v.s. (17)

***Kenneth Nebenzahl considers Adrichom's plan of Jerusalem "the most dramatic and important of the sixteenth century." Nebenzahl (Holy Land), pp. 90-97.