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Dapper, Olfert.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 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: George Gallet, 1703
first edition in french, folio (370 x 240mm.), half-title, title printed in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title, 33 (of 34) engraved plates, maps and plans (comprising one folding, 16 double-page and 16 single-page), 43 engraved illustrations in text, plate list at end, modern morocco-backed boards with old spine laid down, top edge gilt, lacking map of Chios, some pages damp-stained at foot, old spine somewhat rubbed
Literature
Atabey 323 (second French edition, 1730); Blackmer 453; Cobham-Jeffery p.14; Weber II, 745
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. His other works included Syria and Palestine, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia and the Morea.