b'131 (ISRAEL, LAND OF). Olfert Dapper. Naukeurige Beschryving Van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant [Accurate Description of Syria, and Palestine or Holy Land].FIRST EDITION.Complete with 4 fold-out maps including large folding panorama of Jerusalem and 12 double-page maps. 56 engraved plates of which 13 are double-page (including portraits of the Twelve Sons of Jacob). Title in red and black. Additional divisional title. pp. (10), 262, (8), 1-344, 337-581, (7). Lightly browned, occasional foxing, lower portion of title page trimmed affecting date. Contemporary vellum, rubbed, opening hinge starting. Folio. [Rohricht, 1171; cf. Blackmer, 88.] Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1677. $3000 - $5000 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. Dappers work is noted for its objective approach, free of his contemporaries European ethnocentrism.Present here arene views of Damascus, Tripoli, Aleppo, Jaffa, the Temple of Solomon and a birds-eye view of Jerusalem.132 (ISRAEL, LAND OF). E. Heer van Seydlitz and Pieter van Aengelen. Ongeluckige Jerusalemsche Reyse, Waer in beschreven wordt de wonderlijcke gevanckenis, slavernye, ellendige en wreede tyrannye, soo op de galeyen als in de steenbergen, ende eyndelijck de geluckige verlossinge van vier hooghduytsche edelluyden, die in ysere ketenen gesloten, meer als 300 mijlen na Constantinopolen gevoert zijn.FIRST DUTCH EDITION.Two woodcut illustrations. pp. 112. Lightly browned, few stains, Later vellum. Sm. 4to. [Rohricht, p. 194-5, no. 711.] Amsterdam, Marcus Willemsz Doornik, 1662. $1000 - $1500 Description of a 17th century Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land which included capture and imprisonment near Constantinople.THIS CATALOGUE REPRESENTSSELECTIONS FROM THE AUCTION. ALL LOTS ARE VIEWABLE VIA OUR WEBSITE 66'