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Dapper, Olfert.
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- Description exacte des isles de l'Archipel, et de quelques autres adjacentes; dont les principales sont Chypre, Rhodes, Candie, Samos, Chio, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, avec un grand nombre d'autres. Amsterdam: Geogre Gallet, 1703
first french edition, folio (355 x 230mm.), half-title, printed title in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title, 34 engraved plates, maps and plans (comprising one folding, 17 double-page 14 single-page and 2 half-page), 43 engraved illustrations in text, list of plates at end, contemporary calf, occasional slight spotting, old library stamp on verso of title and last leaf (see provenance), rubbed, rebacked retaining original spine
Provenance
King's Inns Library, Dublin, stamp on verso of title and last leaf
Literature
Blackmer 453; Cobham-Jeffery p.14; Contominas 190 (first edition, in Dutch); Weber II, 745; Atabey 323 (second French edition, 1730)
Catalogue Note
Olfert Dapper (1635/6?-1689) was a Dutch physician and scholar who devoted himself to geographical and historical studies which were notable for their fine plates and illustrations, as here, though he never visited the places he described. Other works included Syria and Palestine, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia and the Morea.