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

DAPPER, O[LFERT].

Jacob van Meurs

Amsterdam

1677

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.

Rohricht, Bibliotheca Geographica Palaestinae, pp. 275-6 (no. 1171); cf. Blackmer Catalogue no. 88.

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.