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Striking map of the area between Paradise and the Holy Land, published in Rotterdam by Doorink.
The map is based upon Visscher's map from 1657 (see Poortman #120) but with German text and omitting the author's name.
Decorative map of the region between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf with Paradise, depicted to the east of Babylon.
At the top left and right are two early scenes from the book of Genesis, showing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. At the bottom center is a massive image of the departure of Noah's ark during the first states of the inundation, flanked on either side by Adam and Eve with the serpent, and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Further decorated with compass rose, scale of miles cartouche and a depiction of Jonas and the whale.
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