BOCHART'S INTERESTING GEOGRAPHIA SACRA, 1674.

BOCHART, SAMUEL. Geographia sacra , cujus pars prior Phaleg de dispersione gentium & terrarum divisione facta aedificatione turris Babel; pars posterior Chanaan de coloniis & sermone Phoenicum agit; cum tabulis chorographicis & Indice sextuplici I. Locorum S.Scripturae quae citantur vel explicantur II. Fabularum quae explicantur vel reselluntur III. Vocum Phoenicarum, Graec. Rom. Gallic. German. b&qua ex heraea vel vicinis deducuntur; IV. Vocum Hebraearum, Syr. Chald. Arabic. quae explicantur V. Autorum qui citantur, laudantur, emendantur, illustrantur, notantur VI. Denique rerum & verborum... Acesserunt in fine ejusdem auctoris Epistolae duae: 1. de quaest. Num Aeneas unquam fuerit in Italia? 2. agit de Presbyteratu & Episcopatu; De Provocatione à Judiciis Ecclesiasticia: De jure & potestate Regum: cum indicibud necessariis. Frankfurti ad Moenum, impensis Johann David Zunner, ftypis Balthasaris Davidis Zunneri, 1674.

Small 4:o (about 210x175 mm.). (38), 1-360, (24), 361-864; (3), 4-70, (186, last page blank, index) pp. 4 folding engraved maps (all, one with tears in thr folding, lacks engraved frontispiece portrait).
Contemporary vellum, somewhat worn and soilrd,darkened spine, spine label with some damagers, at foot traces of removed label, red edges, Probably lacking 5 unpaginated folding leaves at end. Minor foxing. Bookplate of Daniel Haak, Pfarrer in Bopfingen

VD17 3:007732L Geographia sacra first published in Caen 1646.

Samuel Bochart (1599 – 1667) was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet. His two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan (Caen 1646) exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis.
In 1652 Christina of Sweden invited him to Stockholm, where he studied the Arabic manuscripts in the queen's possession. He was accompanied by Pierre Daniel Huet, afterwards Bishop of Avranches. On his return to Caen he was received into the academy of that city.(Wikipedia).