EDEN ARMENIA & IRAQ 1720 CALMET UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED BIBLICAL MAP ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN 1720 old times rare books and maps (20096) 100% positiveSeller's other itemsSeller's other itemsContact seller US $26.00 EDEN ARMENIA & IRAQ 1720 CALMET UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED BIBLICAL MAP Description Tabula Paradisi Terrestris Juxta Systema Auctoris incisa а P. Starck-man. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual copper engraved biblical map showing the location of the mythical or biblical Eden, "Paradisus Eden Terrestris," in Armenia The map shows the four rivers flowing towards the four cardinal points from the area around the site of the lost common source: the Pison (later called Phasis) towards the north, the Tigris towards the south, the Ghicon (later called Araxes) towards the east and the 'Euphrates towards the west. Notes ancient place names, rivers, lakes and reliefa. An ornate frame-style cartouche includes the title. Date: 1720 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 27,2 x 40,1 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremark. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Left lateral margin fully reinforced. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Engraver: Pieter Starckman (fl. c. 1680 - 1730), a.k.a Peter or Petrus, was a Dutch engraver active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Starckman was likely born in Amsterdam in March of 1655, the son of Steven Starckman and Atalijntge van Oostijnen. During much of his career he was active in the Hague, but some records suggested that in the early 18th century he held a royal appoint in France as Graveur du Roy en Geograpie, Fortifications et Marines. Starckman engraved for numerous cartographers as well as on his own account, usually signing his work as 'P. Starckman'. He collaborated with the finest mapmakers of his day, including De Fer and De L'Isle. Writer: Antoine Augustin Calmet (February 26, 1672 - October 25, 1757) was a French Benedictine monk and Biblical scholar active in the late 17th and early 18th century. Calmut was born at Mйnil-la-Horgne in Lorraine. He joined the Abbey of St-Mansuy at Toul in 1688. Approximately ten years later he was assigned to teach philosophy and theology in Moyenmoutier Abby. There he gathered the various materials and commentary with which he would eventually compose his important theological studies. Calmet's work initiated a new era of Biblical exegesis in which the dominant allegorical approach to theological analysis was replaced with a critical search for meaning and significance. Calmet was a religious as well as a learned man, and one of the most distinguished members of the Congregation of St. Vanne. In recognition of these qualities he was elected prior of Lay-Saint-Christophe in 1715, abbot of St-Lйopold at Nancy in 1718, and of Senones Abbey in 1729; he was also twice entrusted with the office of president or superior general of the congregation. Pope Benedict XIII wished to confer Episcopal Dignity upon him, but in his humility could not be brought to accept the honor. Among Calmet's more interesting works is a 1746 treatise that ambiguously, though not explicitly, considers the existence of Vampires. Calmet died at Senones Abbey, near Saint-Diй, on 25 October 1757. Редкая Уникальная Подлинная Карта Армении. Земной Рай, 1722 год. Необычная библейская карта, выполненная в технике медной гравюры, на которой изображено местоположение мифического или библейского Эдема, «Райского земного рая», в Армении. Оригинальное название:"Tabula Paradisi Terrestris Juxta Systema Auctoris incisa а P. Starck-man." Карта (автор — отец Антуан Огюстен Кальме, гравёр — Питер Старкман) была напечатана в 1722 году в составе двухтомного труда “Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus.” «Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus» — это латинский перевод монументального библейского словаря Огюстена Кальме (фр. Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, gйographique et littйral de la Bible), опубликованный в XVIII веке. Этот авторитетный труд содержит обширные статьи по истории, географии, хронологии и литературе Священного Писания, а также иллюстрации иудейских древностей Kарта, которая называется “Земной рай” – Эдем, основана на средневековых мифах и религиозных традициях, согласно которым Земной рай находился у Междуречья. Земной рай, Эдем, показан на территории Исторической Армении, между озерами Урмия и Ван, в центре гора Арарат.. На карте указаны четыре реки, вытекающие из библейского рая: Арас (Гихон), Фишон, Евфрат и Тигр. В центре карты