ISRAEL

ISRAEL / יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ - إِسْرَائِيل

National Stamp Exhibition Netanya 86.
Map of the Holy Land by Gerard de Jode, 1578.
Minisheet issued om 19.10.1986.
Face value: 2 Israeli new shekel (P. O. selling price: 3 new shekel).
Size: 126 x 80 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. BL32.
- Scott No. 951.
- StampWorld No. 1046.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS1010.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 33.

Gerard de Jode (also known as Petrus de Jode; Nijmegen c. 1511 - Antwerp, 5 February 1591) was a Netherlandish cartographer, engraver, and publisher who lived and worked in Antwerp. His most outstanding work is a two volume atlas, Speculum Orbis Terræ (from which the fragment reproduced on the stamp is taken), published in 1578. It was aimed at competing with another atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius, published in 1570. He had previously mapped a map of Jerusalem (1550-1559). In constructing his world map, Hemispherium Ab Æquinoctiali Linea, Ad Circulum Poli Antarctici, published in 1593, De Jode was strongly influenced by Guillaume Postel’s 1581 polar planisphere Polo aptata Nova Charta Universi.