Olfert Dapper. Asia; oder Genaue und Gründliche Beschreibung des Gantzen Syrien und Palestins.

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $7,700

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

printer

Jacob van Meursen

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1681

Description

FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Two parts in one volume. 39 copperplate engravings including double-page and fold-out maps, views and illustrations. Including large folding panorama of Jerusalem. 34 half-page plates in text. Engraved allergorical title.

references

Tiele 72, Blackmer 449, Atabey 322.

summary

A FINE COPY CONTAINING EACH AND EVERY MAP, VIEW AND TEXT ILLUSTRATION. Dutch humanist Olfert Dapper (1636-89) produced an extraordinary range of exotic geographical and historical travel texts - all the more remarkable for never having left his native homeland. His objective approach is remarkably free of his contemporaries’ European ethnocentrism.

pp. (8), 220, (4); (2), 456, (8). Lightly browned in places. Contemporary vellum, light wear. Folio.

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