Lot 1017
1017
DAPPER, O. Naukeurige beschryving van Asie. Behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, Of Klein Asie. Beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gansch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie. Amst., J. v. Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in 1 vol. (6), 357, (3); 324, (4) pp. W. engr. front., 16 double-p./fold. engr. plates (incl. 3 maps) & 22 lge text-engr. Fol. Cont. blind tooled vellum, spine raised & mor. ti.-label. (Upper margin 2nd part faintly stained in places, else a very fine copy).
First edition of this beautiful book giving a description of the history and culture of Asia Minor & Arabia. With beautiful views on i.a. Bagdad, Town and Tower of Babel, Ephesus, Smyrna, Muscat, Aden and the Red Sea. Olfert Dapper (1636-1689), Dutch physician and scholar, devoted most of his life to geographical studies without ever leaving his home town of Amsterdam. Using the most reliable eye-witness accounts and his own extensive library of travel books he composed authoratitive works on Asia, Africa and America. - Tiele 300.€ 2000
result € 1600
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