Bound with his Turris Babel ... Amstelodami, M DC LXXIX., Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine. Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431., Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio., and Signatures: +-++4A-K4 (K4 blank).
Has watermarks., Includes text and ill. of Noah's ark on Mount Ararat, angels, animals, Adam and Eve, and Cain slaying Abel., Oriented with north to the upper right., Perspective map., Relief shown pictorially., and Shows the Garden of Eden between the Tigris and
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Topic):
Geographical myths--Maps--Early works to 1800, Noah's ark, and Paradise
