Greece and the Levant: A Private Library

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Lot 176
  • 176

Sandrart, Jacob.

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Kurtze Beschreibung von dem Ursprung, aufnehmen, Gebiete, und Regierung der Weltberühmten Republick Venedig... Wie auch eine kurtze Beschreibung der vornehmsten Griechischen Provintz und Pen-Insel Morea... Nuremberg, 1686
first edition?, 12mo (136 x 75mm.), engraved additional title and 51 maps, plates and plans, 16 folding, modern calf, text somewhat browned

Literature

cf. Weber II, 817 & Zacharakis 1838 (both later edition, dated 1687); not in Blackmer, Atabey, Cobham-Jeffery, Contominas or Stylianou

Catalogue Note

rare. The maps and plates in this work include Constaninople (p.40), Cyprus (p.64), the Hellespont (p.120), Venice (p.172) and many Greek islands.