Maps of the Holy Land: Images of Terra Sancta Through Two Millenia

Sacred to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and the scene of barbarous warfare and miraculous civilization, the Holy Land has commanded the spiritual and political devotion of untold generations. For two thousand years it has also been the consuming obsession of cartographers, who have mapped the territory more frequently than any other place on the planet. This book is the only survey of it’s kind-indispensable for anyone who loves the beauty and romance of antique maps and the history of the Holy Land. This book is in excellent condition with it’s original dust jacket.

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