DAPPER, O[LFERT]. Asia; oder Genaue und Gründliche Beschreibung des Gantzen Syrien und Palestins. Two volumes in one

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

DAPPER, O[LFERT]. Asia; oder Genaue und Gründliche Beschreibung des Gantzen Syrien und Palestins. Two volumes in one

Additional engraved title. 39 copper-engraved plates and maps, many folding or double-page pp. (8), 220, (4); (2), 456, (8). Trace foxed, few neat paper repairs. Recent half-calf over marbled boards. Folio. Detailed collation available on request

Amsterdam: Widow of Jacob von Meursen 1681

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

Dutch humanist Olfert Dapper (1636-89) produced an extraordinary range of exotic geographical and historical travel texts - all the more remarkable for having never left his native homeland. His objective approach is remarkably free of his contemporaries’ European ethnocentrism