PORT OF OPHIR AND ANCIENT WAY TO TARSHISH, 4 MAPS

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R600 - R900

Hammer

R600

PORT OF OPHIR AND ANCIENT WAY TO TARSHISH, 4 MAPS

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PORT OF OPHIR AND ANCIENT WAY TO TARSHISH/LE PORT D’OPHIR ET L’ANCIENNE ROUTE DE TARSIS

Paris and London: [1732 – 1766]

Benjamin Cole: copperplate, horizontal fold, pencil note, age toning along top and left edges, half of double plate, top left: plate 12; top right: Vol [4]
13,5 by 7cm

James Mynde: copperplate, pencil note, top right: Plate 14 Vol IV Page 198
13,5 by 6,5cm

P Bourgoin: copperplate, pencil note, tanning along left margin edge, age toning, top right: Tome IV Page 340
14 by 7cm

P Bourgoin: copperplate, pencil note, damp stains in top and right margins, two notches in left leaf edge, top right Tome IV Page 326
14 by 7cm

from Pluche’s Le Spectacle de la Nature (French) or Spectacle de la Nature, Or, Nature Display'd (English)
(4)

Ophir and Tarshish are legendary as the lost mines of King Solomon. The Kingdom of Israel imported gold but also sandalwood, ivory, monkeys and peacocks from these ports. However, over the millennia the location was lost and thus Ophir and the Ancient Way to Tarshish became an enduring mystery.