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1650 Fuller Map of Judaea and the Dead Sea

Judaea-fuller-1650
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(Holy Land, Trubes of Simeon, Judah, Dan, Benjamin, Reuben, and Ephraim) - Main View
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1650 Fuller Map of Judaea and the Dead Sea

Judaea-fuller-1650

Dramatically Engraved Map of Judaea and the Dead Sea

Title


(Holy Land, Trubes of Simeon, Judah, Dan, Benjamin, Reuben, and Ephraim)
  1650 (undated)     15.5 x 13.75 in (39.37 x 34.925 cm)     1 : 43045

Description


This 1650 Thomas Fuller map of Judaea shows the lands of six of the Thirteen Tribes of Israel, in the portion of the Holy Land running from Samaria to the southern extent of the Dead Sea. Jerusalem and Bethlehem are shown. Within a large, dramatically-engraved Dead Sea the cities of Zeboim, Sodom, Gomorrah and Admah are shown in flames. Simeon, Judah, Dan, Benjamin, Reuben, and Ephraim are marked on the map with the emblems of the respective tribes. In the Pisgah mountains to the east of the Jordan River, Moses is shown atop Mount Nebo, beholding the land he would not be permitted to enter. This same episode is alluded in the title of the work in which this map appeared, Fuller’s A Pisgah Sight of Palestine: the reader might, like Moses, never enter the Holy Land, but with the aid of this book might be able to see it. 

The two-sheet map of the entire Holy Land, of which this comprises the lower half, is generally found joined.

Cartographer


Thomas Fuller (1608 - August, 16, 1661) was an English historian and Anglican clergyman. Fuller was born in Northamponshire, England and was educated at Queens College, Cambridge. A prodigal student, Fuller was describe by contemporary John Aubrey as "a boy of pregnant wit". He entered the Anglican clergy and became well known throughout England for his prodigious speaking skills, which kept him moving from town to town for much of his career. Fuller is also significant as he was one of the first Englishmen able to support himself solely through the publican and sale of his written works, which include The Worthies of England, The Historie of the Holy Warre, The Holy State and the Prophane State and his prominent geography of the Holy Land, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Fuller's personality,

His power of fascinating posthumous as well as contemporary friends is easily explicable. His unfailing playfulness, the exuberant wit, often extravagant, rarely ineffective and always unforced, is combined with a kindliness and simplicity which never fails to charm. If not profound, he is invariably shrewd, sound-hearted, and sensible. He tells a story admirably, as Lamb observed, because with infectious enjoyment. His humour is childlike in its freedom from bitterness. His quick sense of the ridiculous, combined with a calm and cheerful temperament, made fanaticism impossible. It tempered his zeal instead of edging his animosities. Moderation was therefore his favourite virtue, or 'the silken chain running through the pearl-string of all the virtues
Following an illustrious career, Fuller contracted Typhus fever and died at his home in Covent Garden on the 16th of August, 1661. Fuller was survived by several children from his two marriages. More by this mapmaker...

Source


Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-sight of Palestine. (London, John Williams) 1650.    

Condition


Very good. Centerfold reinforced with virtually no loss.

References


cfLaor 278. OCLC 234168756.