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Scarce map of the area around Jerusalem, dedicated to Lord Talbot.
The map includes a key locating about 40 points of interest in and around the city.
The map appeared (after page 374) in Thomas Shaw's Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, published in Oxford in 1738.
Thomas Shawn was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1722 to 1733. During this period he travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus and around North Africa. "These travels have been universally esteemed, not only for their accuracy and fidelity, but on account of the illustrations they contain of natural history, of the classic authors, and especially of the Scriptures." (Lowndes). A supplement was published in 1746.
The map is dedicated to William, Lord Talbot of Hensol in Glamorganshire (1710-1782).
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![[Jerusalem] Antiquae Ierusalem vera Icnographia Ad Sacrae Lectionis Praecipue et Aliarum de Illa Urbe Historiar. Expiicationem Ex collatione actoru cu ruinaru uestigijsac Situ ipso.](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/83738.jpg)
