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RARE SPECIAL DE-LUXE EDITION OF 333 COPIES. COPY No.286. Nine double sheet maps of the Holy Land colored by hand: I. Palestine on the "Ancient Road Map" attributed to the geographer Castorius (app.360). / II. Pietro Vesconte`s Map of the Holy Land - Ulm, 1482. / III. Map of the Holy Land - Lubeck, 1475. / IV. The General Map of Palestine - Jacob Ziegler, 1530. / V. The Holy Land - Divided unto the Tribes of Israel, Basle, 1544. / VI. A Map of Israel - a copper engraving, published for the first time in 1571. / VII. The Land of the Bible in Roman Times - a pictorial woodcut map, London, 1576. / VIII. Terra Sancta, The Holy Land or Palestine - published by Abraham Ortelius in his `Theatrum Orbis Terrarum`, Antwerp, 1584. / IX. The Holy Land. Or the Land of Promise, formerly Palestine, Amsterdam, 1629. The size of each map is 475x335mm. All double-sheet unbound maps and title/contents page laid in portfolio. 485x345mm. 9 unpaginated unbound plates - folder format. Orange board Hardcover with dust jacket. White leather spine. Jacket stained and split into two parts. Jacket edges and corners tattered. Cover slightly curved. Spine stained. Folder endpapers yellowing and partly age-stained. All maps are in very good condition. [SUMMARY]: This unique treasury of ancient Holy Land maps, a rare bibliophile item, is in good condition.