Dapper | Description exacte des isles de l'archipel, 1703

GREECE AND THE LEVANT, A PRIVATE LIBRARY, LOTS 157-213

DAPPER, OLFERT

Description exacte des isles de l’archipel, et de quelquesautres adjacentes; dont les principales sont Chypre, Rhodes, Candie, Samos, Chio, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, avec un grand nombre d’autres. Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703 (engraved title, 1702)

First French edition, folio (357 x 234mm.), half-title, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title in red and black, 34 engraved maps and plates (one folding, some double-page), illustrations and maps in text, plate list at end, contemporary calf, a few plates slightly shorter, delamination to binding, rebacked

A good copy of this highly illustrated work.

LITERATURE:

Blackmer 453; Cobham-Jeffery p.14; STCN 306856808

PROVENANCE:

Caher, armorial bookplate