Naukeurige Beschryving van Gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 317

DAPPER, O[LFERT].

Naukeurige Beschryving van Gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> 4 fold-out maps including large folding panorama of Jerusalem; 27 double-page plates of maps, views and illustrations; 31 plates including portraits of the Twelve Sons of Jacob; 34 half-page plates in text. <<Entirely HANDCOLORED THROUGHOUT.>> Title in red and black. Additional divisional title. Head- and tailpieces. Historiated initials. Printed in double columns. Lightly foxed. Recased in contemporary calf over thick wooden boards, rebacked. Folio. Rohricht, Bibliotheca Geographica Palaestinae, pp. 275-6 (no. 1171); cf. Blackmer Catalogue no. 88.

Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs 1677

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $19,000

<<A REMARKABLE COPY. EACH AND EVERY MAP, VIEW AND TEXT ILLUSTRATION FINELY HAND-COLORED THROUGHOUT.>> Dutch physician Olfert Dapper (1636-1689) traveled to Africa, China, Persia, Georgia, Arabia, Egypt and the Holy Land, leaving a rich geographical and historical record of his travels. Dapper’s work is noted for its objective approach, free of his contemporaries’ European ethnocentrism.